Airconditioning not behind hotel COVID cluster: Qld Health Minister

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Ms D’ath told reporters on Thursday said she had received the final report from police late on Wednesday and would be in a position to make further comments about it in the coming days, but said the hotel’s airconditioning was not to blame and there were no deliberate breaches of protocol.

“We have ruled out airconditioning because the two rooms were on different airconditioning systems,” she said. “But the point around what Victoria is seeing, what Western Australia is seeing, even [what] South Australia is seeing about corridors and air circulation, is an issue that we need to be looking at.

“I can say there is no breach of hotel workers going into rooms against protocol and there is no evidence of people … who were…