The Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2021:
An airline employee who has since tested positive for Covid-19 transported an infected man from the Ballina Byron Gateway Airport, it has been revealed.
Queensland deputy premier Steven Miles said a Qantas flight attendant, who Queensland health authorities reported as a positive case on Friday, drove a man who was infectious from Ballina on July 14.
He said the infected man was now in Queensland but was recorded in New South Wales statistics.
Mr Miles said it is believed the flight attendant caught the virus from the man after he left Sydney.
“(The man was) tested on July 12 because they were a close contact,” Mr Miles said.
“The details of what happened from then are a bit complicated.”
Mr Miles echoed NSW authorities by saying the man should have been in isolation from that time.
This is notwithstanding the fact Sydney remains in lockdown.
“It does appear though there was a lab error in their initial results,” Mr Miles said.
This result returned a negative result for the man and, although he was meant to remain in isolation, he flew to Ballina on July 14 on Virgin flight VA1139.
“They were then collected from Ballina airport by the flight attendant that we reported positive in Queensland on Friday,” Mr Miles said.
“She picked up that passenger from Ballina airport and drove him back to Queensland.
“So it does appear that the flight attended we reported on Friday caught Covid from the passenger on this flight to Ballina.
“Both these positive cases have been active in and around Brisbane and the Gold Coast.”….
“It’s clear that those two people now have been out and about in Brisbane and the Gold Coast since July 14,” Dr Young said…...
“He was tested on July 12 following identification of a workplace contact,” Dr McAnulty said.
He said the man initially received a test result from a private lab which returned a false negative.
He was required to isolate for 14 days regardless of the result of that test.
But he flew to Ballina on July 14 before travelling into Queensland, Dr McAnulty said.
Dr McAnulty said authorities were advised the man’s swab was positive on July 20.
He said NSW Health “immediately contacted and interviewed” the man.
“He stated he had been isolating since the 10th of July however we know this is not true,” he said.
“We’re working with our colleagues in Queensland Health and have referred the matter to NSW Police.”….
Echo NetDaily, article excerpt, 26 July 2021:
Forty-five travellers from Sydney are being urged to get tested for COVID-19 and continue self-isolation on the Northern Rivers after sharing a flight with a confirmed case.
Acting Northern NSW Health District CEO Lynne Weir confirmed Monday the travellers were all supposed to have been self-isolating anyway as they were under public health orders to follow stay-at-home rules applicable in Sydney.
The passengers caught a Virgin flight from Sydney to Ballina on 14 July: flight VA 1139.
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