All rooms at Brisbane hotel to be tested in breach investigation

“That’s part of the consideration of what’s happening at the moment, to try to work out if there’s any more information we can get,” Dr Young said.

The cluster was sparked when a man arrived in Brisbane from the UK on December 30, unknowingly already carrying the more virulent B.1.1.7 strain of COVID-19 that has been circulating there.

The man’s partner was also infected, but they were staying in the same room, so authorities are confident of the transmission link in that case.

However, four other cases – a hotel cleaner and her partner, and a man and a woman from Lebanon in a different room on the seventh floor – do not have clear lines of transmission.

Speculation has swirled this week about whether the hospital’s…