![]() “I didn’t sleep last night so I am very worried,” she said. The premier apologised for the inconvenience the snap lockdown was going to cause people, particularly in the lead-up to Easter, but said health had to come first. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said because of the number of people who had now been infectious in the community, the list of hotspot venues across the state was going to be extensive, particularly in Greater Brisbane. “We need to find out what venues the gentleman went to while he was there before we can make that call,” she said. However, Dr Young said it was too soon to know whether the city would face tougher COVID-19 restrictions. One of Mr Simpson’s work colleagues had also recently travelled to Gladstone in central Queensland. “We need to get as many people in quarantine as possible,” she said. Queensland Health have yet to release the dates of when they were there.ĭr Young said more positive cases were likely in the coming days because the two work colleagues of Mr Simpson had been infectious before they went into quarantine. The three-day lockdown, which is expected to lift at 6:00pm on Friday, comes after Queensland recorded two new locally acquired cases, including the hospital worker and a miner from Ipswich. Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said she would be contacting her NSW counterpart on Monday as the two unknown cases had been to Byron Bay while infectious. Queensland is the latest state to announce a snap lockdown to help stamp out the spread of COVID-19. However, Dr Young said she couldn’t yet confirm if the latest cases had caught the virus from the hospital. 'The person who brought the virus into Queensland was a regular traveller, not a. One of the people is a COVID-19 nurse at the PA Hospital, while the other is her sister. Three cities in the state - Brisbane, Townsville and the Gold Coast - entered a three-day lockdown on Tuesday. ![]() “We will work it through but but at the moment I need to wait for the genome sequence.” ![]() “They will, of course, end up being linked,” Dr Young said. RELATED: Queensland venues exposed to COVID-19Ĭoncern surrounds the two other positive cases, with health authorities now also scrambling to work out how they acquired it. – 10.Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said she and contact tracers were working hard to link the four cases. – 10.05pm – Athletics – Men’s 400m Hurdles semi-finals – 10.00pm – Beach Volleyball – Women’s Round of 16 – Mariafe Artacho del Solar / Taliqua Clancy (AUS) Vs Chen Xue / Xinxin Wang (CHN) – 9.25pm – Athletics – Men’s 800m semi-final (Charlie Hunter, Peter Bol, Jeffrey Riseley) – 8.50pm – Water Polo – Women’s Prelim Round – Australia Vs South Africa – 8.45pm – Athletics – Women’s 100m Hurdles semi-finals (Liz Clay) – 8.15pm – Athletics – Men’s 100m semi-finals (Rohan Browning) – 4pm – Diving – 3m Springboard final (Esther Qin) – 3.33pm – Sailing – Men’s One Person Dinghy Laser – Matt Wearn’s gold medal – 3.30pm – Table Tennis – Women’s Team Round of 16 – Australia Vs Germany Or check out this afternoon's schedule below. You can find Monday's NSW blog here and the Queensland blog here.Īustralia is set for a massive Day 9 of the Tokyo Olympics, with three goal medals in the bag and at least one more on the way.Įmma McKeon won the women’s 50m freestyle final before the Aussie girls broke an Olympic record and won gold in the medley relay finalsįor all the latest you can always visit our live blog here. ![]() Queensland was sent into a snap three-day lockdown on Saturday afternoon in a bid to allow contact tracers to track down the rapidly growing cases, with concerns growing that restrictions may need to be extended beyond 4pm Tuesday. "Certainly if (lockdown) doesn't all go according to plan, we certainly could have sustained community transmission arising from this event." This one really does have the makings of something significant," he said. Queensland recorded nine new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, making it the highest daily increase in local cases the state has seen in almost a year.ĭirector of Infectious Diseases at Mater Health, Dr Paul Griffin, told Weekend Today that Queensland had been "lucky" to avoid widespread outbreaks of the Delta variant so far, but warned this situation could easily get out of control. An Australian infectious disease expert has warned the Queensland outbreak has the makings of a "very significant event", similar to the situation being faced in Greater Sydney.
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