Hotel quarantine surveillance boosted after Grand Chancellor mystery

Friday January 15, 2021

Health authorities are counting every negative COVID-19 test as a near miss amid an investigation into how one infectious case became a cluster of six.

Police will increase surveillance at quarantine hotels. Photo: ABC

The six people infected with the same UK strain are all connected to the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, which was this week shut down as a quarantine facility. Some 500 people were initially deemed at risk of infection as authorities sought to determine whether it had spread from person to person or through air conditioning.

Of the 147 people…

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