Queensland has detected one new locally acquired case of COVID-19 of a close contact of one of the existing clusters that saw Greater Brisbane locked down earlier this week.
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said the positive case had been in quarantine since March 27 and initially tested negative before recording a positive result overnight.
Authorities said the Greater Brisbane lockdown had “served its purpose”.
Two more cases were detected in hotel quarantine.
More than 25,000 tests have been done in the past 24 hours.
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath urged any Queenslanders with any symptoms to continue to come forward for testing.
There are 74 active cases in Queensland, with 11 patients discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours.
The state has administered 29,123 vaccinations in the last week, and has administered more than 88,000 vaccinations overall.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the new case recently became unwell while in quarantine.
"He's been in quarantine for his entire infectious period so there is no risk at all," Dr Young said.
"People should be reassured by the large numbers of venues that are up on the website, because that's the information we need.
"Please could everyone continue to look at the website, look at those venues.
"We've seen a lot of testing again yesterday, that's really, really good – please, it needs to continue for the next 14 days."
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)"The first patient that led to transmission, and the second patient that led to transmission, were both being managed in the same room – subsequent to each other, not at the same time," Dr Young said.
"So we think there could be a problem with that particular room or the environment around that room.
"I don't know at this stage… it could of course be coincidental but it is suspicious that both of those patients were being managed in the same room, one after the other."
Dr Young said health authorities had not tested a Princess Alexandra Hospital nurse who spread coronavirus to her partner, as they were focused on a doctor who also caught the virus from a patient.
"We did work through with the hospital at that stage to test staff," she said.
"But at that stage they were really concentrating on the doctor who got infected, and they were testing all of the people around the doctor.
“They hadn't realised that there was on an ongoing potential risk from that particular patient which is why they didn’t expand their testing to a broader cohort."
Queensland Health are now testing any “visitor or patient or staff member whose been in that ward".
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