There have been no cases of community transmission of coronavirus recorded in Queensland in the past 24 hours, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has confirmed.
One new case of COVID-19 was recorded in the child of two people who already had been hospitalised after testing positive since recently returning from South Africa.
That child is also in hospital, Dr Young said.
She also said people caught by the Hotel Grand Chancellor COVID-19 cluster who have already served a fortnight in quarantine but initially expected to restart their quarantine period would be released later today, given it was now 14 days since a cleaner in the Hotel Grand Chancellor tested positive to the UK strain of COVID-19.
"We haven't had any additional cases other than those six that we have told you about before," Dr Young said.
"So that means [from 6:00pm] tonight, those guests who were transferred from the Grand Chancellor to the Westin will be able to leave quarantine.
"Of course, if any of them can't make travel arrangements by then because they are travelling interstate or they are going elsewhere in Queensland, we would be very happy for them to continue to stay in the hotel overnight.
"We won't ask them to go and find a different hotel."
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said some staff at the hotel were close contacts of the cleaner, and would remain in quarantine.
"I believe there were about 30 people at the Grand Chancellor who were due to leave because they had completed their 14 days who were then asked to remain in quarantine," Ms D'Ath said.
"Anyone else who was in the Grand Chancellor who was moved over to the Westin who was still in their original 14-day quarantine will continue that 14-day quarantine period."
Dr Young said investigations into the spread of the UK variant at the Hotel Grand Chancellor were still underway.
"We still have contacts who came into contact with the cleaner or her partner out in the community, so their 14 days depends on when that contact occurred. So not all of those [people] are out of quarantine at this stage," she said.
"There is every chance we have contained this cluster. It's a little bit too early to say.
"It is looking promising, but I still ask anyone with any symptoms anywhere in the state at all, please, just come forward and get tested."
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