Easter lockdown ‘likely’ as COVID crisis deepens

It comes as the hospital at the centre of Brisbane’s rapidly moving COVID-19 outbreak has been plunged into lockdown after a fresh case emerged Tuesday night and another hospital has sent staff home after a recent visitor tested positive. Authorities are racing to control two growing clusters which have now reached as far as Gladstone and the Gold Coast. Late Tuesday, the Chief Executive of Metro South Health, Dr Peter Bristow, emailed staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital to say a decision had…



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