Queensland has recorded three new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, including the manager of the Brisbane Portuguese Family Centre that was visited by a woman at the weekend while she was infectious.
The 62-year-old man, a manager at the Ellen Grove restaurant in Brisbane's south-west on Saturday, told the ABC earlier this morning he returned a positive test result on Wednesday night.
He was identified as a close contact of a woman who flew into Australia from Portugal and visited the restaurant while unknowingly infectious.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles later confirmed two other locally acquired cases in the state, both close contacts of the flight attendant who flew into Queensland from Portugal earlier this month.
The close contacts were travelling with the woman when she was out and about in Brisbane on Saturday.
All cases have contracted the Alpha variant.
One other case of COVID-19 was detected in hotel quarantine.
Cases not 'a risk to the Queensland community'
ABC News: Chris Gillette
)Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she was not concerned because all contacts were in quarantine for "their entire infectious period".
"I'm not concerned that any of the three cases are a risk to the Queensland community," she said.
The restaurateur told the ABC this morning he had been in isolation and alerted health authorities when he developed symptoms yesterday.
He is being treated at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
The man said his wife had tested negative to COVID-19 but will be retested.
This infection is the second case of community transmission linked to the exposure site, with another man who visited the Portuguese Family Centre testing positive earlier in the week.
It comes after the woman flew into Queensland on an Emirates flight and tested positive to the virus after undergoing 14 days of hotel quarantine.
The woman, who had plans to work as a cabin crew member for other airlines, returned a positive result for the Alpha variant last weekened after routine airline testing.
She had visited Brisbane's DFO shopping centre, the CBD and the Portuguese restaurant while infectious, prompting authorities to declare a series of venues exposure sites.
Queensland has a total of 39 active cases.
'We have to be so alert'
Queensland Health placed border restrictions on people coming from Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour.
From 1:00am this morning, anyone travelling from those areas will be refused entry, unless they have an exemption.
Dr Young reminded people in Queensland of the need to immediately get tested if they developed symptoms in light of the Delta variant rapidly spreading in Sydney.
"So please, everyone in Queensland — we don't know how this might get into our state.
"This is not the time to go down into New South Wales."
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