An older case of community transmission has been uncovered as NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard urged the Queensland Premier to rethink the border closure | rachelclun mattdennien
An older case of community transmission has been uncovered as NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard urged the Queensland Premier to rethink the border closure.
"The epidemiological and laboratory investigations indicate the infection likely occurred about two months ago," he said on Thursday morning. But Mr Hazzard said the northern border was an entirely different issue, and politics were playing too great a part.However Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has stood firm on health advice that 28 days would need to pass without mystery community transmission before it could include all of the southern state.
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