A quarantine hotel in Brisbane has been locked down after confirmation of coronavirus spreading inside after a doctor contracted the virus from a person staying there.
Travellers who have stayed at the Hotel Grand Chancellor are being urged to get tested for coronavirus after genomic testing confirmed spread within the hotel.
Queensland has recorded six new cases in hotel quarantine, but none from the locked down hotel. There has been no local transmission.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the state has 38 active cases and completed 4376 tests yesterday.
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There has been spread of coronavirus within the Hotel Grand Cancellor in Brisbane. (Attila Csaszar)
BRISBANE'S HOTEL GRAND CHANCELLOR CLUSTER: Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancellor cluster has three COVID-19 cases linked by genomic testing. Two are guests staying in separate rooms on level one of the hotel.
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Premium Content A cluster of three COVID-19 virus cases linked to the Hotel Grand Chancellor is mystifying Queensland health authorities, with speculation that a super spreader may be responsible. Genomic sequencing has linked all three infections - two of them staying on floor one of the Grand Chancellor and a doctor, who assessed one of the hotel cases at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. The inner-city Brisbane hotel was also involved in Queensland s only other case of the pandemic virus breaching hotel quarantine, resulting in a six-person cluster and a three-day lockdown of Greater Brisbane in January.
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