A staff member at Brisbane's Griffith University who is a close contact of a school student with coronavirus has tested positive for COVID-19.
A staff member at Griffith University in Brisbane has tested positive for COVID-19.
In a statement release on Friday, the university said the employee was a close family contact of the 13-year-old school student who tested positive this morning. Authorities confirmed the student from St Thomas More College in Sunnybank, on Brisbane's south side, had been in the community while infectious.
Griffith University said the employee had attended a meeting on the Nathan campus in Brisbane's south on Wednesday this week. Queensland Health notified all attendees at the meeting today and asked them to go home and immediately get tested for COVID-19.
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