Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch

The state also reached 12 straight days of no locally acquired cases since the Hotel Grand Chancellor cluster.

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<p>There have been no new community transmitted cases of coronavirus in Queensland in the past 24 hours.</p>

An infectious diseases physician believes airborne transmission is behind the Hotel Grand Chancellor outbreak and wants 'indoor air safety' there to be investigated.

All the rooms at the Hotel Grand Chancellor will be tested for COVID-19 as authorities try to determine how the virus was bale to spread in the quarantine hotel.

<p>Queensland&rsquo;s chief health officer played down the coronavirus threat to ambulance staff called on to evacuate the Hotel Grand Chancellor.</p>

An outbreak of the highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19 in a Queensland quarantine hotel has grown to six cases, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said.

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<p>Victoria and NSW have both put in place lockdown rules for travellers who&#x27;ve arrived from a Queensland hotel.</p>

People who have already spent two weeks in hotel quarantine at Brisbane's Grand Chancellor — where a cleaner tested positive to the UK variant of the virus — are told they will have their quarantine extended with 129 guests being moved to other hotels.

The Hotel Grand Chancellor COVID cluster has triggered a near-record day of testing for the pandemic virus in Queensland.

Queensland Health authorities are trying to trace people on Jetstar flight JQ 570, which flew from Melbourne to Brisbane on January 5.

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has instigated a 3-day lockdown across Greater Brisbane in an effort to combat the spread of the highly

Queensland has recorded nine new Covid-19 cases on Friday, all in hotel quarantine.

There is real concern that current infection control protocols may not be enough to protect against the mutated strain of COVID-19 from the UK, which is 70 per cent more infectious, following the positive test of a Brisbane quarantine hotel cleaner.

Scott Morrison has called a national cabinet meeting for Friday to discuss whether to tighten precautions on international arrivals in response to fears that travellers from the UK will spread a more infectious mutant coronavirus strain.

Victoria reached 16 days without community transmission on Friday, while Queensland and NSW also recorded no new local cases.

NSW and Queensland case numbers have seen both states move from from the 'medium risk' category to the 'low risk' category, where entry to WA is permitted but two weeks of self-quarantine is still required.

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Western Australia will reclassify Victoria as a "low-risk" zone, while Victoria is declaring Greater Brisbane an "orange zone".