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Queensland scrambles to contain a growing coronavirus cluster ahead of the Easter weekend
Less than a week before Easter, many residents in south-east Queensland are likely to have confirmed plans for the long weekend.
Key points:
- Queensland Health issued a long list of contact tracing sites on Saturday
- People who visited any of the six close contact sites listed need to immediately quarantine
- More than a dozen other sites require people to get tested and isolate
But news that a Brisbane man held a party for 25 people while waiting for his test results — which came back positive — has raised speculation the city is heading towards another lockdown.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is expected to give an update on Sunday morning.
Earlier on Saturday, she said she was “very comfortable” with the situation, though at that…
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