Fears Queensland's Delta outbreak is spreading north, hundreds of health care staff in isolation

Authorities are investigating a positive case in Cairns, at a childcare centre.

The alert comes as Queensland recorded 16 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus yesterday, bringing the state's outbreak to 47.Authorities are still trying to determine how the virus has potentially spread north.Meanwhile, 400 critical health care workers have been sent into isolation.Hundreds of Brisbane doctors are among those in isolation as their children attended schools affected by the Delta cluster including every cardiac surgeon at Queensland's Children's Hospital.

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