Health
Fully vaccinated travellers test positive in Sydney hotel quarantine – Brisbane Times
This comes as the mystery of how an eastern suburbs couple caught a COVID-19 infection brought into hotel quarantine by a US traveller remains unsolved.
University of Sydney epidemiologist Dr Fiona Stanaway said, given no COVID-19 vaccine is 100 per cent effective, it is to be expected that some people who have been vaccinated will test positive although they will likely be asymptomatic.
If youre asymptomatic youre less likely to transmit, she said, adding the figures regardless show hotel quarantine systems are still needed.
When you have a country like Australia where most people are unvaccinated, so theres a risk of a mass outbreak, people still…
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