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Health alert after traces of COVID-19 found in Qld sewage – Brisbane Times
People in the coastal town of Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, are being urged to get tested for COVID-19 after the state’s sewage surveillance program found traces of…
The catchment, near Rockhampton, takes in sewage from the suburbs of Taroomball, Inverness, Hidden Valley, Rosslyn, Mulambin, Cooee Bay, Barlows Hill, Lammermoor, Meikleville Hill, Pacific Heights, Taranganba and Yeppoon.
It is, of course, also possible that this detection relates to previous COVID-19 cases who can shed viral fragments for a couple of months after they are no longer infectious, Dr Young said.
While Queensland added no new cases to its COVID tally on Thursday, three cases of interest…
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