NSW Issues Virus Alert for Brisbane Hotel

NSW Issues Virus Alert for Brisbane Hotel
NSW Chief Health officer Kerry Chant at a press conference in Homebush in Sydney, Australia on Aug. 17, 2020. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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NSW has issued an alert for anyone who has been at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, fearing a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 may have spread across the border.

The quarantine hotel is linked to six cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and has been closed by the Queensland government for deep cleaning.