How a Queensland woman’s hen’s night in Byron Bay became a COVID superspreader event

Unravelling how one COVID infection can spread across suburbs and states can sometimes seem like it needs a detective to unravel.

How did the COVID infection of a nurse working in a Brisbane hospital end up having ramifications for a man sitting at a pub in Byron Bay?

Between the Brisbane nurse and the Byron pub, Greater Brisbane has gone into a lockdown which is due to end at 5pm on Thursday but which may need to be extended.

So far no part of NSW has been ordered into lockdown, but health…