Qld hotel evacuated for UK strain outbreak

Genomic testing linked six cases of the highly infectious UK strain of COVID-19 to a Brisbane hotel quarantine facility, prompting authorities to take extraordinary measures to keep any further outbreak under control.

The strain had already been detected in a traveller who had returned from the UK on December 30, and then in his partner. The cases have since been genomically linked to two people who tested positive in the hotel on Tuesday after returning from Lebanon. “Once again, precaution … 250 quarantined guests who have left the hotel since December 30 are now currently being contacted. They will be quarantined and tested.”Those currently in quarantine who are being moved will not be asked to pay for their time at the Grand Chancellor or at their new hotel.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed on Wednesday that a cluster of COVID-19 has emerged out of the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Queensland.

As authorities scramble to determine how COVID-19 spread through the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, all guests currently quarantining will be forced to undergo another 14 days in another hotel. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan PeledA joint Queensland Health/ police investigation is ongoing to determine how the virus escaped quarantine.

“Not only are we investigating the actions of any persons that were involved with the Grand Chancellor Hotel who worked there or may have been in quarantine there, we are investigating the behaviour of a virus which is new, so this is a very difficult thing to do,” he said. “How did it get transmitted? Was it movement? Was it in the air conditioning? Was it picking up something? We just don’t know those answers yet,” she said.

Shut the border Gladys!!!

It's crazy to think and believe that the most highly contagious disease can be isolated in a hotel room. 🥴

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