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Brisbane COVID-19 case infected despite ‘no breaches’ in protocol as doctor waits to see if she has highly transmissible UK strain
Queensland health authorities are investigating how a Brisbane doctor caught COVID-19 within a hospital as they wait to find out if she has the highly infectious UK strain.
Key points:
- Contact tracers are racing to find people who attended three “high risk” locations on Thursday
- The doctor tested positive on Friday after waking up with a sore throat
- Hospitals and other facilities in Greater Brisbane went into a 72-hour lockdown on Saturday
Genomic testing is being carried out to determine if the doctor, from the Princess Alexandra Hospital at Woolloongabba on Brisbane’s southside, caught the UK strain from two COVID-19 patients she assessed on Wednesday.
Hospitals, prisons, aged care and disability services in the Greater Brisbane area —…
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