Quarantine hotel worker confirmed to have UK strain of coronavirus as Greater Brisbane aged care facilities locked down

A cleaner who tested positive to coronavirus after working in a quarantine hotel in Brisbane has been confirmed as having the more contagious UK strain of the virus.

The confirmation comes as aged care facilities have been placed in lockdown across Greater Brisbane, including Metro North, Metro South and West Moreton Hospital and Health Services.

Visits to hospitals and disability accommodation has also been banned.

The woman, aged in her 20s, is the first locally acquired case to be contracted from hotel quarantine in Queensland.

Her positive case has brought the state’s streak of 113 days without community transmission to an end.

Earlier today, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the woman, who is from the southern Brisbane suburb of…