Queensland is on edge following the chilling warning the virus “could be anywhere” after an infectious person travelled widely.
The terrifying nature of the outbreak centres around a medical student, who “travelled widely through Brisbane” while infectious as the state announced six new infections, taking the total to seven cases.
She revealed that one of the new cases, a medical student at the University of Queensland was a tutor for that 17-year-old whose case was announced on Friday, whose family members are also now infected.“I suspect – although it’s hard to know because of the very rapid transmission time frames – I suspect that medical student is the index case and has taken it into that household, and then it has spread within that household,” she said.
“Then we have the child, the youngest child in that family attends Ironside School, and one of the teachers there is already positive,” added Dr Young.
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