Health
How Qld’s latest COVID cluster was stopped in its tracks – Daily Mercury
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has revealed extraordinary details of the extreme measures to contain the state’s latest COVID-19 cluster.
Health experts feared Queensland’s latest cluster of COVID-19 would balloon to hundreds of cases, but then the state’s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young went to 82 households to seek their help.
Normally, close contacts of cases are asked to go into quarantine for 14 days to try and ring fence potential new infections.
But fearing she would be unable to get on top of the outbreak quickly, Dr Young went a step further, requesting that 82 households, including families and people living in sh…
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