Hundreds of staff at two hospitals in Sydney and one in southeast Queensland have been forced into isolation after coronavirus outbreaks worsen.
Source:News Corp AustraliaNSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said staff and patients will be interviewed “many times” to get a full picture of how the virus had spread.
“There is nothing clear-cut here,” she said. “We’re obviously very keen to look at how transmission occurred in these settings.”Concord Hospital has cancelled non-urgent surgeries until Friday and workers from other hospitals could be redeployed to cover shortages as a result of the outbreak.Meanwhile, reinforcement staff have been sent in to a hospital in southeast Queensland as a COVID-19 outbreak grows.
Another nurse has tested positive at Ipswich Hospital. The woman in her thirties takes the total number of cases connected to the cluster to five. Queensland Health director-general John Wakefield said the health worker had contracted the virus from one of her colleagues, more than 200 of whom had gone into quarantine.
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