An Ipswich nurse working with infected patients and the sister of a student already in quarantine have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Two more Queenslanders have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 200 hospital staff are in quarantine as the corrective services cluster grows.
The other case is the sister of a student at Staines Memorial College, who was already in quarantine."That means there is some pressure on the capacity of the hospital."She said both new cases had links to outbreaks in the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre and Queensland Corrective Services training centre."In one it is a household contact situation ... The second case is one of the nurses who has been looking at one of those known cases.
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