The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation. All 129 people staying at the hotel are being moved to another hotel and tested before restarting their 14-day quarantine. “Have a look what’s happening in the UK, what’s happening in Ireland, I mean, this, if it if it gets out of control it can have devastating consequences,” the premier told reporters. “Right now we do know that this strain is coming into Australia from overseas arrivals, they’re not just coming into Queensland, it’s coming to other states as well, so I think everybody needs to be on a higher alert.” Palaszczuk said 226 people who have worked at the hotel …
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