The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, was placed into lockdown on Friday night after a positive case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, was detected in a doctor. On Saturday, Deputy Premier Steven Miles confirmed that the staff member was a doctor. “The doctor had been managing two patients who had COVID-19. She used all the proper PPE but because this virus is so contagious she still caught it,” he said in a statement on Facebook. Queensland Health said in a statement that the doctor had contact with COVID-19 positive patients in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was infectious in the community on Thursday. Test results revealed the doctor had low levels of the virus which meant that she may have only been infections for around one day—before being tested on Friday. Queensland Health did not immediately …
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