Queensland coronavirus update

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Please attribute the below to Dr Jeannette Young, Chief Health Officer:

5 February 2020

There has been a fourth confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Queensland.

The 37 year old man, a Chinese national from Wuhan (Hubei Province), is currently isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH).

The man is a member of the same tour group travelling with the previously confirmed cases – a 44 year old man, a 42 year old woman and an 8 year old boy.

All four people who have been confirmed to have novel coronavirus are stable.

The five others from the same tour group remain in isolation in GCUH.