Queensland has recorded one new COVID-19 cases, after a record number of tests were carried out on Tuesday.
It comes as authorities continue to try and find the origin of the latest cluster, which has already infected five staff members of the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre and five close contacts.
The new case is understood to be a close contact of a previously confirmed case, who lives at Forest Lake.
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Deputy Premier Steve Miles confirmed a record breaking 20, 856 people got tested on Tuesday.
It comes a day after chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said serology and genomic sequencing testing was being carried out on the newest cases to determine the origin of the latest outbreak.
The first patient in the latest cluster, a 77-year-old staff woman, has the same strain of COVID-19 as Olivia Muranga, one of the women who returned to Queensland from Melbourne last month infected with the virus.
Dr Young said they were searching for the “missing link†between the two clusters, and had urged more Queenslanders to get tested.
The latest cluster may have alternatively been sparked by a yet-unidentified visitor to the detention centre, or by a traveller who imported the virus from interstate.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she wanted to thank the record amount of Queenslanders who got tested on Tuesday.
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