A Queensland quarantine hotel has gone into lockdown after two residents tested positive with investigations underway to see if there was any transmission.
A patient at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandria Hospital, who was treated by a doctor who later tested positive to COVID-19, was transferred to hospital from hotel quarantine, it was revealed by deputy chief health officer Sonya Bennett on Sunday.
The patient tested positive on Day 12 of her stay which was when she was taken to the Princess Alexandria Hospital.
Dr Bennett said the woman testing positive later in her stay was “a little bit unusual” but it was not unheard of for COVID-19 to have a late inoculation period.
After the woman went to hospital she was treated by a doctor who then tested positive to COVID-19.
Dr Bennett said on Sunday that a positive COVID-19 case that was announced on Saturday could also have a link to the same woman.
The Saturday case stayed on the same floor at the same time as the woman.
They were both staying at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane.
Ms Bennett said she wanted to make clear it was not linked to a previous cluster at the same hotel.
She said the hotel would go into a three-day lockdown while the “potential” links between the doctor, the patient, and the third COVID-19 case were investigated.
“We want to rule out that there has been any transmission at all in the hotel,” she said.
“It’s one of a number of possible options to explain the case identified yesterday.”
The hotel would go into lockdown for 72 hours, Ms Bennett said.
“(It will) not accept any more residents, not discharging any return travellers for the next 72 hours until we understand better the context of that event,” she said.
Meanwhile, Queensland recorded one new case of COVID-19 on Sunday but authorities do not believe it is linked to a doctor who tested positive while working at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandria Hospital.
The case is “likely historic” which was “really good news”, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said in a press conference.
The Premier said there were 36 active cases in the state.
More than 5000 Queenslanders were tested in the past 24 hours.
Contact tracing is complete for a doctor who tested positive for COVID-19 who worked at the Princess Alexandria Hospital at Woolloongabba on Brisbane's southside, Ms Palaszczuk said.
She said 238 community contacts had been identified and testing was underway.
At the Princess Alexandria Hospital 61 staff and seven patients have been tested because of their link to the doctor.
Three close contacts had returned negative tests.
“Contact tracers are going through where the doctor went in the hospital, they are identifying those people, and we should have more results of their tests tomorrow,” she said.
It was revealed on Sunday the doctor was not attached to a particular ward in the hospital but moved throughout responding to wherever she was needed.
She had worked with a COVID-positive patient and genomic testing was underway to see if that patient and the doctor’s infections could be linked with certainty, Ms Bennett said.
She said there was a “partial” link between the COVID-positive healthcare worker and one of the cases she assessed.
“Genomic sequencing hasn’t quite confirmed the link,” she said.
“There wasn’t enough virus.
“What the laboratory was able to do was what we call partially sequence, which indicates there is a link between the healthcare worker and one of the patients she assessed.”
The Princess Alexandria Hospital was put into lockdown on Friday after it was discovered the doctor was COVID-positive.
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