Queensland Health traces mystery case but no new infections overnight
Though there have been no new cases of COVID-19 in Queensland overnight.
Queensland Health are urgently investigating a case of an international traveller who flew into Melbourne on December 26 and served 10 days in quarantine but later tested positive to the more infectious UK COVID-19 strain in Queensland.
The woman is now in isolation in Maleny.
Queensland Health authorities are now trying to trace people on Jetstar flight JQ 570 which flew from Melbourne to Brisbane on January 5.
Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young said the risk of community transmission is low because the woman was at the end of her infectious period.
With the zero new cases overnight, Queensland has 21 active COVID-19 cases, with all cases in isolation.
Chief Health officer Jeannette Young speaks at a press conference in Brisbane.Credit:Jono Searle/Getty Images
Dr Young said 91 people who came into contact with the woman who cleaned at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.
"All of those have been tested and they are all negative," Dr Young said.
"They are all now in 14 days quarantine," she said.
"We will re-test them if any of them develop symptoms or show systems at an exit test on day 12."
Dr Young said remained concerned about the cleaner's casual contacts.
"Those are the people who we don't know exactly who they are so we need to get the message out there."
She asked people catching trains between Brisbane's Altandi rail station to Central Station on Saturday, January 2 about 7am and also back from Central Station to Altandi about 4pm to get tested.
She also asked for people who were at the Woolworths Calamvale North store on Sunday, January 3 (11am to noon) and the Coles Sunnybank Hills store on Monday, January 5 from 7.30am to 8am to get tested.
"That is important, whether or not you have symptoms I would like you to come forward and get tested."
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk arrives at her press conference in a face mask. Masks are compulsory in greater Brisbane this weekend.Credit:Jono Searle/Getty Images
Dr Young said she was very encouraged that the "first person" in the Hotel New Chancellor cluster - the person who have the UK strain to the cleaner – has been identified.
"We have found the first person, which is so critical," Dr Young said.
"That is what I want to do every time. Find the first person so we can immediately get everyone into quarantine, as we have done with those 91 contacts so far," she said.
Dr Young said Brisbane residents were accepting the direction to wear masks outside their homes.
"Every single person I saw on my way in was wearing a mask, which is fantastic," she said.
"For the next three days it is really important that everyone throughout those five local government areas wears a mask."
Tony Moore is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times