Please attribute the below to Dr Jeannette Young, Chief Health Officer:
6 February 2020
There has been a fifth confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Queensland.
The 37 year old woman, a Chinese national, is currently isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH).
The woman is travelling in the same tour group as the previously confirmed cases – a 44 year old man, a 42 year old woman, a 37 year old man and an 8 year old boy.
All five people who have been confirmed to have novel coronavirus are stable.
The four others from the same tour group remain in isolation in GCUH.