Queensland has reported one new locally acquired case of COVID-19, with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk saying she is "very happy and very comfortable" with the current situation.
The infected person had been in home quarantine since 2 July because they were a close contact of a case related to the Greek Orthodox community centre in south Brisbane, Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young told reporters on Sunday.
The person has been transferred to hospital.
Ms Young also confirmed that one of the cases included in Saturday's numbers, an airport baggage handler, had been reclassified as a false positive.
Ms Palaszczuk said the state was dealing with the Alpha strain not the Delta strain and everything was "under control at this point in time".
"We are very happy and very comfortable where we are at the moment and that is because Queenslanders are doing the right thing," the premier told reporters on Sunday.
On Saturday night Queensland health authorities issued a fresh alert for exposure sites in Brisbane and the state's southeast, just hours after a snap four-day lockdown came to an end.
Residents in Brisbane and Moreton Bay emerged from lockdown at 6pm on Saturday evening, but Ms Palaszczuk on Saturday warned the state is not "out of the woods yet" with five new local COVID-19 cases recorded overnight on Friday.
The new exposure sites announced late on Saturday included venues in Eumundi, Sunshine Beach, Carina, Carindale and Tingalpa.
Restrictions including mandatory mask-wearing and QR check-ins will remain in place in Brisbane and Morton Bay.
Annastacia Palaszczuk on Saturday thanked affected Queenslanders for locking down for an extra day.
"That's good news today for people in the Brisbane City Council and Moreton Bay. But as I said, we are seeing some cases popping up," she told reporters in Brisbane.
"We are not out of the woods yet."
One of the new cases on Saturday was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster in Brisbane and was in quarantine for the entirety of their infectious period.
Another new case linked to the restaurant cluster was a man in his 50s who worked at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. His infection was announced on Friday.
A healthcare worker who worked one shift at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital while infectious was also among the new cases. Authorities are checking to see if she contracted the virus after contact with the COVID ward.
A Brisbane man in his 20s who holidayed in Eumundi, a rural town in the Sunshine Coast area, is also believed to have acquired the virus from a relative linked to the Greek community centre.
Ms Palaszczuk said she was confident contact tracers could get on top of the new cases.
Health Minister Steven Miles said another lockdown could be avoided if Queenslanders abided by the restrictions around mask-wearing and check-ins.
"For the first time in a long time there could be cases in our community that we don't know about," he said on Saturday.
"And so it's important that everyone, particularly in the south-east, goes about as though they could come in contact with the virus."
'We are very happy and comfortable': Queensland records one local coronavirus case - SBS News
Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment