Brisbaneâs COVID-19 cluster worsens
Aug 3, 2021 â 5.28pm
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Brisbaneâs latest COVID outbreak has grown to 47 after 16 new local cases were recorded on Tuesday, with growing concerns health authorities will struggle to contain the delta cluster before the eight-day lockdown ends on Sunday.
While the outbreak has so far been mostly contained to seven schools in Brisbane, the worst fears of health authorities were confirmed on Tuesday afternoon with a new positive case in Cairns.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said he hoped the eight-day lockdown would be enough to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak.Â
Matt Dennien
Queensland Health scrambled to see if the case in Far North Queensland was a historical case or linked to the Indooroopilly cluster.
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