Two clusters in Queensland now

We’re now getting details from CHO Dr Jeannette Young.

“So, we’ve had 10 new cases overnight. Six of them are locally acquired cases. Five of them are related to the second cluster. One, we’re still working out which cluster they’re related to, but we know they are a contact of a case. So we have six linked locally acquired cases.

She says there are two clusters now. One is related to the doctor at the PA hospital. Then we have a second cluster relating to the PA nurse who recently tested positive.

“She has exactly the same genome – no snip is different – to a gentleman who arrived and was treated in the PA Hospital and was tested on 22 March. So, after the nurse worked in the COVID ward. She did do a shift on the night of 23 March, so that shift started 10:00pm that night, she worked through the night into the next day on the 24th.

“So, my hypothesis – and this all has to be tested, this all has to be checked out, this is very preliminary information – is that she has acquired the infection when at work that night. Now, I don’t know whether she’s got it directly from that patient, because she wasn’t working with COVID cases that night, but we have to confirm that, or whether she’s got it from someone else in the hospital.”

Then the nurse’s sister tested positive. 

“Then there are a further five cases that I’ve been informed of overnight linked to that nurse or her sister. So, they’re all linked cases, and they all attended a party together down in Byron Bay. So, we’re just working through all of those specific details.”

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