Health alert after traces of COVID-19 found in Qld sewage

The catchment, near Rockhampton, takes in sewage from the suburbs of Taroomball, Inverness, Hidden Valley, Rosslyn, Mulambin, Cooee Bay, Barlows Hill, Lammermoor, Meikleville Hill, Pacific Heights, Taranganba and Yeppoon.

“It is, of course, also possible that this detection relates to previous COVID-19 cases who can shed viral fragments for a couple of months after they are no longer infectious,” Dr Young said.

While Queensland added no new cases to its COVID tally on Thursday, “three cases of interest” are now under investigation.

Dr Young believes one of the cases, a woman in north Brisbane, had returned a false positive test.

Additional testing done on Thursday returned negative results, more results to come in.

Two other positive…