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Quarantine risk: Frightening figures show infections now 15 times more likely
Monday February 01, 2021
As another state orders a lockdown after COVID-19 escaped hotel quarantine, new figures reveal why Queensland is so worried.
Quarantined guests at the Hotel Grand Chancellor had to be moved to another hotel due to the cluster. Photo: ABC
Greater Brisbane was forced into a three-day lockdown after the UK strain of COVID-19 spread on the seventh floor of Hotel Grand Chancellor and into the community.
The more contagious UK strain had already prompted Australia to reduce its intake of people returning from overseas, and led Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to call…
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