Health authorities were hopeful genomic testing would help find the mystery link between two coronavirus clusters but the results are not strong enough to identify a source.
Health authorities scrambling to find the missing link to the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre outbreak were hopeful genomic testing would provide the answers they required to solve the mystery case at the centre of the state's recent cluster.Virologist Kirsty Short warns "we can't let this fester in the community unchecked"But the results have fallen short of providing any concrete answers.
Dr Short said this was because the genomic test results do not show the route a specific strain of coronavirus has taken. Explaining why the results were not definitive, Dr Short said tracking down the cause of a cluster was much like a balancing act between genomic testing and contact tracing.
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