Got The Byron Blues 2hd.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 2hd.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A further case of COVID-19 directly linked to the Byron Bay henâs party cluster has been reported in Queensland.
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said of the stateâs 10 new cases recorded on Tuesday, one was community-acquired.
The remainder are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
She said the new community transmission was another attendee of the henâs party, which involved 10 people plus an entertainer who travelled to Byron Bay from Queensland between last Friday and Sunday.
âThat was the perfect case if I could describe it as that,â Dr Young said.
âThis was one of those participants in that party that happened at Byron Bay.â
A further case of COVID-19 directly linked to the Byron Bay henâs party cluster has been reported in Queensland.
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said of the stateâs 10 new cases recorded on Tuesday, one was community-acquired.
The remainder are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
She said the new community transmission was another attendee of the henâs party, which involved 10 people plus an entertainer who travelled to Byron Bay from Queensland between last Friday and Sunday.
âThat was the perfect case if I could describe it as that,â Dr Young said.
âThis was one of those participants in that party that happened at Byron Bay.â
She said his – and the hen’s group’s – use the QR code at the venue was also a critical detail that helped to contain the situation.
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said the man “immediately did the right thing” when concerns about the venue’s COVID contact were released.
Dr Chant’s Queensland counterpart, Dr Jeannette Young, meanwhile praised the first nurse who was diagnosed in the cluster. People waiting to be tested at the COVID clinic in Byron Central Hospital on Tuesday, March 30.
Genome testing indicated her infection came from a returned traveller from India; he has been at the PA Hospital.
Advertisement
Veteran Bluesfesters Annika Tofil and her 15-year-old daughter Giselle Wise from Bateau Bay were in the Byron Bay Lifeline opp shop scouting for outfits when they heard that Bluesfest was cancelled.
The duo had been planning their “girls’ road trip” to the music festival for months. They had packed their car with suitcases filled to the brim with vintage clothes and ensembles from local Byron designers Amethyst Daze, Spell and the Gypsy and Forster-based Lenni the label.
Mother and daughter Annika Tofil and Giselle Wise from the Central Coast.
Credit:Natalie Grono
“We had collected all our costumes at home and had picked out five special outfits for the five days we were going to be at the festival,” said Ms Tofil, a disability support worker who has been coming to the festival since before her daughter was born.