UK traveller with mutant COVID strain travels to QLD from Victoria

A returned traveller who completed mandatory hotel quarantine in Melbourne before flying to Queensland has returned a positive result for the more transmissible UK variant of the virus.

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young told reporters on Saturday that the woman had arrived in Victoria from the United Kingdom on December 26 and completed hotel quarantine.

“She did the ten days required isolation, cleared all her symptoms, and was allowed to leave Victoria and fly to Queensland,” she…