Tag: UK strain

Queensland Proposes Mining Camps as Alternative to Hotel Quarantine

The Queensland government is looking at using some of the mining camps in the state as quarantine facilities as it faces down potential future outbreaks of the CCP virus, which health authorities have said will likely be dominated by the more transmissible UK strain. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters on Thursday that she will put…


Qld Quarantine Hotel Shut as Cluster Grows

The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation. All 129 people staying at the…


Queensland Quarantine Hotel Shut as Cluster Grows

The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation. All 129 people staying at the…


Victoria Aims to Step Up Hotel Quarantine Program

The Victorian government will bolster its hotel quarantine program with the addition of more hotels and a senior manager as it prepares to facilitate more overseas travellers. The move comes after the Victorian government initiated new quarantine measures for flight crews, and interstate returnees who are returning from COVID-19 hotspots in Australia. Currently, the hotel quarantine program,…


Australia Fights to Keep UK Strain at Bay

As highly infectious mutant strains of COVID-19 spread globally, Australia is fighting hard to keep them at bay. Victoria, NSW and the Northern Territory all revealed positive cases of the virulent UK strain in hotel quarantine on January 9, while Brisbane and surrounding communities were in lockdown because of one locally acquired UK strain case….


Woman From Victoria Positive for UK Strain in Queensland

The mutant UK strain of the CCP virus has been detected in a woman from Victoria who flew into Queensland on Jan. 5, the Queensland government announced on Saturday. The woman arrived in Melbourne from the UK on Dec. 26 and tested positive for COVID-19 the next day. She completed 10 days’ quarantine then was…


Aussies Must Test Negative for CCP Virus Before Flying Home

The federal government announced that people returning to Australia would be required to test negative for COVID-19 pre-flight on Friday. This comes as 80 percent of people looking to fly home from overseas are in countries that have been exposed to the UK strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus (novel coronavirus). Prime Minister Scott…