Jonathan Fillion Posted January 30, 2020 Report Posted January 30, 2020 30 January 2020 Gold Coast region There has been a second novel coronavirus case confirmed in Queensland. A 42 year old woman, a Chinese national from Wuhan (Hubei Province), has been confirmed to have novel coronavirus. The woman was a member of the tour group travelling with the 44 year old man confirmed with coronavirus on 29 January 2020. The woman is currently isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital, and is stable. Contact tracing is underway, which will allow us to provide information to guests of the hotel this group was staying in, and to other passengers on Tigerair flight #TT566 from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on 27 January 2020. Any passengers who were on this flight should call 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) for advice. The seven other people from the same tour group remain in isolation in GCUH. We’ll provide more information as soon as it is available. For general information about novel coronavirus including symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, visit www.health.qld.gov.au/coronavirus. 29 January 2020 Gold Coast region There has now been a confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Queensland. The man, 44, remains in a stable condition at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH), where he is in isolation. The man, who is from the city of Wuhan (Hubei Province), arrived in Melbourne via Singapore as part of a tour group on 22 January 2020, 5 days before feeling unwell. He developed symptoms on a flight from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on Tiger Airways flight #TT566 on 27 January. The flight arrived at 8.45pm. He was taken to GCUH about 3.30pm on 28 January where he was tested and diagnosed with novel coronavirus. Eight other people from the same tour group are also in isolation in GCUH.
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