A woman who tested positive to COVID-19 in Queensland overnight does not have the Delta variant.
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In a statement on Sunday evening, Queensland Health said genome sequencing had confirmed it was not the more transmissible variant.
The woman, aged in her 30s, had completed 14 days of hotel quarantine at 9:00am on Saturday.
She had returned negative tests during hotel quarantine.
A follow-up test on June 19 shortly after leaving hotel quarantine — which was as part of routine aircrew surveillance — came back positive on Saturday evening.
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