Dr Young warned there would be several more exposure sites in Cairns.
Authorities believe the marine pilot who infected the taxi driver in the Far North Queensland city, now may have been infectious since July 23."We've got this information from New Zealand, about the ship that he piloted … he came off that ship on the 23rd of July, and we think that's probably where he acquired it," she said."Then that taxi driver took the pilot to the airport on the 26th of July and we know, through whole genome sequencing, that those two are linked.
"But that was before we thought he was infectious, which is why [the taxi driver] wasn't picked up on contact tracing, but we're now going back further.""I know that Cairns is going through that short sharp lockdown at the moment, but it's very encouraging to see Cairns residents coming out and getting tested," Premier Palaszczuk said.
Why can 13,000 people be in home quarantine yet international arrivals are forced through hotel quarantine?