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Brisbane lockdown unlikely but growing fears over PNG where half test positive
Monday March 15, 2021
Authorities may have contained the latest Brisbane outbreak but they are alarmed by the scale of the threat posed by Papua New Guinea.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Deputy Chief Health Officer Sonia Bennett have been dealing with the latest cases of COVID-19 to escape quarantine. (AAP Image/Albert Perez)
Genomic sequencing has shown that a returned traveller at the Hotel Grand Chancellor tested positive to the UK variant of COVID-19 and somehow infected a traveller on the same floor and later, a doctor at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
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