Health
How COVID escaped quarantine, and what’s about to change as a result – Brisbane Times
All quarantine hotels are set to overhaul their cleaning processes, while a report into Brisbane’s hotel outbreak has recommended seven other major changes .
What happened
In early January, six people linked to level 7 of the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbanes CBD tested positive for a more contagious strain of the coronavirus.
Patient zero was a man who had travelled from the United Kingdom via Doha, Qatar. He infected his partner, who was quarantined with him.
A hotel cleaner, who never entered the couples room and had no direct contact with them, then tested positive. The woman had cleaned an adjoining room the day before.
At home, she infected her…
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