Tradie who worked as a ‘male entertainer’ at a hen’s party in Byron Bay is among five new Covid cases linked to Queensland hospital cluster

By Daily Mail Australia Reporter

Published: 01:08 BST, 30 March 2021 | Updated: 01:42 BST, 30 March 2021

A tradesman who worked as a ‘male entertainer’ at Byron Bay hen’s party is among five new Covid cases linked to a Queensland cluster.  

The outbreak is believed to have spread to New South Wales after an infected nurse and her sister travelled to the holiday hotspot from Brisbane for a bachelorette party between March 25 and 28.

On Tuesday it was revealed that the cluster has blown out to at least eight people, who are infected with deadly UK strain of Covid-19.

Upon returning home to the Gold Coast, the entertainer went to an aged care facility where every resident had already had their first dose of the vaccine.

Pictured: Byron Bay Beach Hotel, where a Covid-infected nurse and her sister visited between March 25 and 28

Pictured: Byron Bay Beach Hotel, where a Covid-infected nurse and her sister visited between March 25 and 28

Pictured: A closed sign due to COVID-19 positive case having visited at The Farm on March 28, 2021 in Byron Bay

Pictured: A closed sign due to COVID-19 positive case having visited at The Farm on March 28, 2021 in Byron Bay

Pictured: A closed sign due to COVID-19 positive case having visited at The Farm on March 28, 2021 in Byron Bay

The nurse’s infection has been linked to an overseas traveller who was treated in hospital, though it is unclear how she became infected. 

Byron Bay residents are being urged to be especially vigilant in monitoring their health and are encouraging anyone with even the mildest symptoms to get tested immediately and self-isolate until told otherwise.

Ghanda Clothing, Tiger Lily, Black Sheep, Quicksilver, Suffolk Bakery and the Park Hotel Bottle Shop are in that category as well as Byron Beach Hotel, The Farm and Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park. 

NSW Health released an alert on Monday evening saying anyone who had visited the Queensland capital since March 20 must immediately self-isolate and not leave their house until Thursday at 5pm. 

Pictured: People socially distancing at Main Beach on March 29 after Covid-infected people visited the town

Pictured: People socially distancing at Main Beach on March 29 after Covid-infected people visited the town

Pictured: People socially distancing at Main Beach on March 29 after Covid-infected people visited the town

Pictured: People lining up to be tested at a walk-through COVID testing site at the Surf Life Saving Club on March 29 in Byron Bay

Pictured: People lining up to be tested at a walk-through COVID testing site at the Surf Life Saving Club on March 29 in Byron Bay

Pictured: People lining up to be tested at a walk-through COVID testing site at the Surf Life Saving Club on March 29 in Byron Bay

The outbreak prompted NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to residents to brace themselves for another wave of Covid-19. 

NSW recorded zero new cases overnight from 7,300 tests, but Ms Berejiklian said that number was too low for officials to know they hadn’t missed any community transmission of the virus.

The state leader said she ‘would not be surprised’ if Queensland’s outbreak of the highly-contagious B117 UK strain of the virus spread south of the border.

She ruled out though shutting the border despite the Sunshine State announcing eight new local cases of the virus on Tuesday. 

‘The NSW government is confident we have the provisions in place to get on top of it,’ she said.

‘I hope we do not have any cases arise in New South Wales but I would not be surprised if we did, so we must brace ourselves.

‘We are expecting more cases from Queensland and hopefully most of those cases will be people in isolation, although we have to assume this is an evolving situation.’

 

BYRON BAY VENUES ON COVID-19 ALERT 

Get tested and self-isolate for 14 days

Byron Beach Hotel – 1 Bay St, Byron Bay on Friday March 26 from 7.15pm-8.30pm 

Mokha Café in Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 10.30am-11am

Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park – women’s communal toilets on Friday March 26 from 6pm-6.30pm and 9.10pm-9.30pm and Saturday March 27 from 3.20pm-3.50pm 

Betty’s Burgers & Concrete Co (patrons who sat in the Feros Arcade) in Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 11am-12pm 

The Farm Byron Bay – 11 Ewingsdale Rd, Ewingsdale on Sunday March 28 from 8am-9.30am

Isolate until a negative test is returned 

Black Sheep in Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 12.30pm-12.40pm

Ghanda Clothing in Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 12pm-12.15pm

Quiksilver Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 12.40pm-12.45pm

Tiger Lily Byron Bay on Saturday March 27 from 12.15pm-12.30pm

Park Hotel Bottle Shop in Suffolk Park on Saturday March 27 from 7.30pm-7.45pm

Suffolk Bakery in Suffolk Park on Saturday March 27 from 2.45pm-3.15pm 

New pop-up testing clinics:

Byron Bay QML Pathology Drive-Through – 8am to 8pm 7 days from midday Monday 

Walk-in Pop-Up Clinic; Byron Bay surf club car park – 8am to 6pm from Monday to Sunday, starting Monday afternoon

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