Engineers will be called into the Princess Alexandra Hospital's Ward 5D to assess air circulation as a potential cause for two separate COVID-19 virus clusters. The investigation comes as Health Minister Yvette D'Ath revealed a "single area" in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital could be used to care for the majority of Queensland's COVID patients in the wake of the outbreaks. Suspicions into a possible common cause of both clusters are focused on an isolation room inside the PA Hospital's Ward 5D, where two so-called super-spreader patients were cared for at different times last month.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, where a probe is underway into two separate COVID-19 clusters. Photo: Dan Peled.