More coronavirus cases linked to Qantas baggage handlers

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SA Health confirms more coronavirus cases have been linked to an outbreak among Qantas baggage handling staff at Adelaide Airport.

Several new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in South Australia, linked to Qantas baggage handlers from Adelaide Airport.SA Health said several more people in the state had tested positive overnight including some linked to the clusterSouth Australia's chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier told ABC Radio Adelaide the new cases were confirmed overnight, but could not yet say how many there had been.

"There have been several more cases overnight. I don't have further details but I will be able to update people later in the day about that," Dr Spurrier said.

 

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Sticking on to the baggage handlers(?), the poor sods unloaded how many thousands of bags from O/S flights without spraying disinfectant, we spray insecticide but the signs were there in December we needed more?

Has Schapelle Corby's boogey-board bag resurfaced?

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