Key Points
- Six people in Hotel Grand Consul were found to carry the UK coronavirus strain
- The hotel has been shut down and the residents are being moved to bother facilities
- Staff and recent residents will have to go into quarantine
Queenslanbd authorities announced that the 129 residents of Hotel Grand Chancellor are being moved to different hotels, as a cluster of six cases of the mutant coronavirus strain from United Kingdom was located on the seventh floor of the hotel.
The 6 people stayed in the same floor but during different periods. Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk said that the residents will not be charged for their stay in Grand Chancellor.
In addition all staff that were at the hotel from 30 of December as well as those who completed their quarantine on and after that same date, will be placed ijn quarantine as a cautionary measure, for 14 days or until the authorities manage to determine the link to the strain.
