State of play: Queensland’s six clusters explained
Health authorities have been battling six separate Covid-19 fronts across Queensland with more than 6000 close contacts quarantining at home. Here’s where all the clusters stand.
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More than 6000 close contacts are quarantining at home because of the six separate Covid-19 fronts which health authorities have been battling across Queensland in recent weeks.
Authorities haven’t formally closed off any clusters, but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this week revealed the highly-contagious Delta strain was no longer believed to be circulating in the community.
This followed a mammoth contact tracing effort after the Delta variant was detected in the mining cluster, the initial Prince Charles Hospital worker who travelled to Townsville and the Brisbane International Airport worker.
So far, 30 people have contracted the Alpha variant while 12 have been diagnosed with the Delta strain.
Further cases of community transmission are expected in coming days but the government is feeling more comfortable about Queensland’s position.
MINING CLUSTER - DELTA VARIANT
Mine worker travels from his home in Bendigo to Brisbane via Melbourne Airport on June 17 where he is put in hotel quarantine at Novotel Hotel.
He then contracts the Delta variant from an international arrival during a nine-hour stay at the hotel.
He flies to the Newmount Corporation Granites Gold Mine in the Tanami Desert
Health authorities call for close contacts 0n June 23 to people in surrounding rooms after another international arrival tests positive.
The miner gets tested on June 25 during a 900 person shift swap between Perth, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
He tests positive to the Delta variant on June 26, 754 people are contacted for testing.
A woman from Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast tests positive the next day, she was a returned miner and had embarked on a road trip but turned around when she was contacted by contact tracers.
Four miners test positive in the Northern Territory on the same day.
A man from Ipswich who was at the gold mine and two more people in the Northern Territory test positive on June 28.
HOSPITAL WORKER - DELTA VARIANT
A 19-year-old Prince Charles Hospital worker becomes infectious with the Delta variant on June 19.
She goes to Sandgate Woolworths and the Bay Health Gym on June 20.
She has symptoms on June 21 and works at the Hospital on June 22 and 23.
She flies to Townsville from Brisbane and visits restaurants, hotels and beaches on Magnetic Island on June 25, 26 and 27.
She is tested for Covid-19 on June 29, her brother tests positive on June 30.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT/PORTUGUESE FAMILY CENTRE - ALPHA VARIANT
A female flight attendant tests positive with the Alpha strain of Covid-19, after being infected while in hotel quarantine at the Four Points Hotel.
She went to the Brisbane Airport DFO, the city and the Portuguese Family Centre in Ellen Grove
A 60-year-old man who was at the Family centre at the same time tests positive on June 23, the president tests positive the next day.
Two people who travelled with the flight crew member test positive on June 24.
Two people, a female DFO worker and her partner a man who works on the Sunshine Coast test positive on June 27.
Two people who were in quarantine test positive on June 28 and 30 and another on July 1.
A person on day 12 of their quarantine period testdc positive.
ADMIN CENTRE AT GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY CENTRE - ALPHA VARIANT
The link between the Greek centre outbreak and the Portuguese Centre is under investigated but both are the Alpha variant.
A mother in her 40s and her daughter, a child from Carindale test positive after visiting the Greek Community Centre.
A person in home quarantine tested positive on July 4 to the Alpha variant which was picked up at the Greek Community Centre.
A woman and her child staying in Tarragindi tested positive to Alpha variant, she is a close contact to one of the cases at the Greek Community centre.
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DELTA VARIANT
An 30-year-old woman who is a check in worker at Brisbane International Airport for Qatar Airlines tests positive to Delta variant.
Her role was checking in passengers and was involved with the international crew.
She was symptomatic from June 27.
Her partner tests positive on July 2.
He is a baggage handler at the Brisbane International Airport.
It was revealed by health authorities that he was the first of the pair to be infected and gave it to his partner.
Genomic sequencing found the variant is not linked to any other cases in Australia and is likely linked to India.
ZEUS STREET RESTAURANT CLUSTER- ALPHA VARIANT
The 50-year-old female healthcare worker at the Prince Charles Hospital tested positive on July 3 attended the restaurant at Westfield Chermside on June 26.
A 29-year-old Brisbane man who travelled to Eumundi was also at the restaurant tested positive on July 3.
The man’s partner and his colleague, a man from Sinnamon Park, tested positive on July 5.
A student nurse at Griffith University from Kangaroo Point who is a close contact of the man from Sinnamon Park tested positive on July 6.
She didn’t attend campus during her infectious period but did attend Logan Hospital for one hour on June 28.
The person she visited at the hospital has returned a negative test.
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