Authorities ‘hopeful’ virus cluster contained, Victoria eases travel

The Chief Health Officer said she was “enormously grateful” to the cleaner from the hotel who caught the virus and went to a number of locations while infectious, for coming forward and co-operating with the health response.

“She was the first case in that cluster, and we found her, due to her,” Dr Young said.

“That’s what I always want to happen is to find the first case in a cluster, because we can act quickly and close things down and then hopefully at the end we can say we had a cluster with six cases.”

Greater Brisbane went into a hard lockdown for three days ending on the evening of Monday January 11, and has since opened up slightly, although gathering restrictions and a mask mandate are still in place.

The measures will remain in…