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Sippy Downs apartment residents in isolation after COVID-19 case visited unit block while infectious
Residents inside a Sunshine Coast apartment are reportedly in isolation after a COVID-19 case from Brisbane visited the block.
David WuDigital Reporter
August 4, 2021 - 8:15AM
A unit complex on the Sunshine Coast has been deep cleaned after a confirmed COVID-19 case visited the apartment.
The complex in the city s south-east was not listed on Queensland Government s latest exposure sites on Wednesday morning as it was understood health officials were able to contact all the residents.
It is believed the person was from Brisbane and is linked to the Delta cluster.
Queensland Health authorities concerned for young people as state records 16 new infections
Queensland Chief Health Officer Doctor Jeannette Young is still concerned how the state s current outbreak occurred after another double digit increase in cases on Tuesday.
David WuDigital Reporter
August 3, 2021 - 10:40AM
Queensland Health authorities are still trying to determine how two overseas cases transmitted the virus to a teenager from Indooroopilly.
Contact tracers believed two people, one from Indonesia, the other from the UK - that arrived in Brisbane on June 29 - somehow spread it to the index case, a teenager, before transmission across a number of schools and household family members.