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Qld waste test negative as state reopens – 7NEWS.com.au
Further sewage testing at the southern Queensland town of Hervey Bay has turned up negative for COVID-19 as the state prepares to re-open borders to the ACT.
Follow-up wastewater testing in southern Queensland has come back negative for coronavirus after fragments were detected in an earlier sewage test.
The positive result was found in a sample at the Pulgul wastewater treatment plant in Hervey Bay, north of Brisbane.
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the low-level virus fragments detected were probably due to an older case of COVID-19 that was no longer infectious.
“A negative result today doesn’t indicate a false positive i…
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