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WATCH LIVE: CHO to provide update after five new cases – Warwick Daily News
Queensland’s risk of COVID-19 escaping hotel quarantine ‘is continuing to escalate’, warns the CHO amid a spike in returned traveller cases today.
Queensland’s risk of COVID-19 escaping hotel quarantine ‘is continuing to escalate’, warns Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young.
Five new coronavirus cases were detected in Queensland today taking the state’s active case total to 17.
All were acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine but Dr Young warned the system had to be managed ‘very, very carefully’.
“The risk from overseas is continuing to escalate and we have to be very, very careful,” she said.
“We’ve now seen breaches interstate…
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