Queensland authorities have issued a warning to Cairns residents over community transmission of coronavirus after five pathology lab workers were infected.
The disease was introduced into the lab at Cairns Hospital a month ago when a technician from Brisbane visited before testing positive for COVID-19 after his return home.
Last week, it was revealed a lab worker at the same clinic had also tested positive.
It has now been revealed three more lab workers had unknowingly contracted the disease and recovered.
“It’s clear they got it from that initial person,” chief health officer Jeannette Young said on Tuesday.
“We’re now doing further work to ensure there are no other unwell staff members or patients in the Cairns hospital.
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“It’s very important across the whole community in Cairns that anyone who’s unwell with any respiratory symptoms - so cough, sore throat or shortness of breath - that you immediately go and see your own GP or go to the fever clinic in Cairns to be tested.
“We want to make sure we don’t have any more community spread in Cairns.”
Young indicated it was unlikely there was widespread community transmission in Cairns.
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“We haven’t seen a lot of cases in Cairns,” she said.
“I would suspect if there was a widespread problem that we would have seen a lot more cases.”
Six more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed across Queensland on Tuesday, taking the state’s total to 1024.
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