One new local case of COVID has been detected in Queensland, after a 26-year-old man tested positive to the virus.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the new case on Saturday.
The new case is a close contact of the 26-year-old man and he lives in a separate household in Strathpine.
Contact tracers are interviewing the man and are expected to update the list of exposure sites later on Saturday.
Palaszczuk said the next two days were “critical” and urged anyone with symptoms to come forward for testing.
The premier added anyone who had been to the Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre on Saturday March 20 from 12pm to 2.16pm should get tested for the virus.
Eighteen other close contacts have been identified.
Overseas arrivals halved
Palaszczuk added she has asked Scott Morrison to half the number of international arrivals flying into Queensland.
“I think this is very important for two reasons,” she told reporters.
“The first reason is we want to be able to concentrate on the contact tracing, but secondly we are seeing large numbers of positive cases that are coming in.
“Basically, every day over the last fortnight, we have been seeing five or six cases... we’re almost at the capacity of our hospitals that we were at the peak of the pandemic.
“That is not to say our hospitals cannot cope, they will be able to cope, but this large influx that we are seeing, and the high rate of people coming back, returned travellers being positive, for the next two weeks I’m asking the prime minister to half our number of overseas returning travellers.
Missing link
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young said it was still unclear how the man contracted the virus but genome sequencing has directly linked his case to a case in a doctor at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
“There is probably, given timing, one intermediary between the first healthcare worker, and this gentleman we believe. There could have been two” Young said.
“There is every chance we won’t find it, because we know people can get infected and be totally asymptomatic and then pass it on.
“So we just have to work that through.
“The most important thing that will give us the answer is that anyone who is sick in Brisbane comes forward and guess tested.”
Exposure sites
Queensland Health has identified one close contact venue so far. Anyone who has been to Mamma’s Italian Restaurant in Redcliffe on Sunday March 21 from 12.30pm-3.10pm is urged to immediately quarantine for 14 days.
Several other exposure sites have been identified, with visitors to these locations urged to get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is returned.
- Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre on Saturday March 20 from 12pm-2.16pm
- Market Organics (store only), Newmarket on Saturday March 20 from 2.45pm-3pm
- Baskins-Robbins, Everton Park on Saturday March 20 from 9.20pm-9.25pm
- Genki Mart, Alderley on Sunday March 21 from 10.30am-10.46am
- Guzman y Gomez, Stafford (drive through) on Monday March 22 from 12.20pm-12.25pm
- Bunnings Warehouse, Stafford on Monday March 22 from 12.40pm-12.50pm
- Aldi Stafford, Stafford City Shopping Centre on Thursday March 25 from 8.30am-8.45am
- Nundah Respiratory Clinic, Nundah on Thursday March 25 from 11.15am-11.40am
Anyone who has visited the following locations is urged to monitor themselves for symptoms.
- Gasworks Plaza, Newstead on Sunday March 21 from 9.50am-10.20am
- KFC Everton Park (drive through) on March 22 from 7.55pm-8pm
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