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‘Excellent news’: Queensland records just two new cases on Sunday
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Authorities remain confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters are “under control”, as the state recorded two new cases on Sunday, one of them from community transmission.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the locally acquired case was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster, while the second was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”
Portuguese restaurant cluster grows with new case
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Early on Sunday, authorities were confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters were “under control”, but later, another person tested positive, taking the day’s tally to three cases – two locally acquired.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said of the first two cases that one was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster while the other was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”
Coronavirus contact tracing sites grow following identification of missing link in Brisbane
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Following the Good Friday announcement that a previously unidentified nurse is believed to be the missing link in Brisbane s COVID-19 clusters, Queensland Health has updated the COVID-19 contact list.
The previously unidentified nurse, who also works at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, treated the same returned traveller who infected a doctor earlier in March.
Queensland COVID-19 snapshot:
Deaths: 6
Active cases: 82
historical casual contacts.