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South African COVID-19 strain confirmed in Canberra’s two active hotel quarantine cases
Health authorities have confirmed the ACT’s two active COVID-19 cases have the South African strain of the virus — Canberra’s first recorded cases of the more contagious variant.
Key points:
- Canberra has recorded its first cases of the South African strain of COVID-19
- Both cases tested positive to the virus while in hotel quarantine on Thursday
- The cases are returned travellers who arrived on a repatriation flight from Singapore on Monday with 144 other passengers
The two travellers arrived on a repatriation flight from Singapore on Monday.
They recorded weak positive test results while in quarantine but were on Thursday confirmed as active cases.
ACT Health today confirmed the unrelated cases — a man aged in his 40s and another man aged…
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