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Canberra records two new COVID-19 cases in hotel quarantine with more ‘quite possible’
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in hotel quarantine in Canberra, bringing the total number of active cases in the ACT to four.
Key points:
- The two new cases are close contacts of those already diagnosed with the South African strain
- Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith says it is “quite possible” more cases will be detected
- Authorities remain confident they can contain the virus within quarantine
The two travellers arrived on a repatriation flight from Singapore on Monday.
Two other passengers from the flight — a man aged in his 40s and a teenage boy — have already tested positive to the South African variant of the virus.
The latest cases include the teenager’s mother, who has been quarantining with her son.
The second case is…
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