Queensland's chief health officer has denied there was breach of quarantine rules at a Brisbane hotel linked to a cluster of the highly contagious UK coronavirus strain.
The Grand Chancellor Hotel was shut on Wednesday after six people linked to the quarantine facility tested positive for the UK variant.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says there was no breach of protocols when a daughter accompanied her father, who had the strain, to hospital on New Year's Day.
She says the woman wore PPE at all times and was treated by Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) and hospital staff as if she was a positive case.
"We didn't get a positive result on him till the next day but it doesn't matter because he went via ambulance to the hospital, was assessed there, was treated as if he was positive, was kept because he needed to because of the symptoms that he had," Dr Young told reporters.
"Now, his English is not great, so the daughter went with him, but she was treated as if she was positive, so they were managed in negative pressure rooms etc etc.
"So there's no risk and all of the transport was done via QAS, and that is QAS's job, and they do (it) very, very effectively.
"They move infectious people, not just COVID but other infectious people, so there's no issue here at all."
All Queenslanders among the 147 people who stayed at the Grand Chanceller after December 30 have tested negative for the virus.
The 226 staff who worked at the hotel after that date are also in the process of being tested but so far none have tested positive.
Dr Young said along with extensive community testing in Brisbane, there's no evidence of any further spread beyond the current six cases.
"I'm becoming more and more confident that there is no ongoing spread related to that so we're going to do some further work over the next 24 hours and police will continue their investigation of course, and we'll be able to work out what we need to do going forward related to that hotel," she said.
Dr Young said there were three new virus cases in Queensland, including two men who came from the Philippines and the US, respectively, and are in hotel quarantine.
The third is a man who arrived from the Congo and lives in the north Cairns but tested negative before leaving quarantine in September.
She said he's asymptomatic and likely shedding the virus, which will explain traces of COVID-19 turning up wastewater in the area over the past few months.
"So now of course we're going to do some additional testing just to confirm all that but I'm very confident that that will be historical case and not infectious," Dr Young said.
