As of Monday morning, there are 31 cases of the virus linked to the 17-year-old Indooroopilly State High School student, after another 13 cases were confirmed on Monday morning.Six schools are now tied up in the outbreak, with more than a dozen cases confirmed to be children, including seven Ironside State School students confirmed on Monday.Ten of the new cases on Monday are aged under 10 years old. The Delta variant has hit young people hard in New South Wales too, with hundreds of people aged under 30 testing positive to the virus. Having this many cases in children is rare, but Dr Jeannette Young said because schools have not been subject to mask mandates, it has allowed the virus to spread between students who have taken it home.Dr Young said while the outbreak is genomically linked to two travellers who tested positive to Covid-19 last month, she still doesn’t have the missing link, but now believes a medical student, who tutors the high school student, did not transmit the virus.“Another nine (genome sequence results) came through overnight and they’re all clustering with those initial two … the gentleman who travelled from Indonesia and the person who travelled from the UK,” she said.“And the 17-year-old was the first person in the household who tested positive. “Now I am very confidence that the medical student did not take the virus into that household … One (member) of that household gave it to the medical student. “So I don’t know where the missing link is.”Dr Young said “all she knows” is that two people arrived from overseas into the Brisbane International Airport on June 29, and subsequently 29 additional people have contracted the same virus. “I genuinely don’t know how it’s (spread) from those two people,” she said.
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