Quarantine cleaner’s partner tests positive as Brisbane lockdown lifts

The partner of the Brisbane quarantine hotel cleaner who spent five days in the community with the more infectious United Kingdom COVID-19 variant and led to a three-day city lockdown has also tested positive to the virus, Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has confirmed.

While the man has been in quarantine since January 7 – the same day Queensland authorities alerted the public to the cleaner’s movements during the time she was believed to have been infectious – further contact tracing will now be conducted.

But Dr Young stressed there would be no change to the easing of the three-day lockdown, which lifted at 6pm Monday evening, after earlier stating cases among the 370 contacts already found would not result in a snap…