Sewage tests, NSW cluster contacts show COVID is in Queensland

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said testing clinics would remain open during Christmas and New Year, but patients should check their opening hours on the Queensland Health website.

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“I am concerned that we do have the virus now in Queensland. We have seen those positive sewage results and we known there are a lot of people who have come back into Queensland from that northern beaches area and other parts of Sydney,” she said.

Health officials have detected COVID-19 traces in wastewater results at three new Queensland sites – Wynnum on Brisbane’s bayside, along with Bargara and Bundaberg, about 350 kilometres north.

It followed earlier wastewater detections in Cairns, Townsville, the Gold Coast and Brisbane bayside suburb of…