Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed two new community cases of coronavirus, in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast, along with a third in hotel quarantine.
Key points:
- Two new community cases have been confirmed in the south-east
- Queensland Health says they have visited a lot of sites
- It's believed the pair do not have the Delta strain currently impacting NSW
Ms Palaszczuk said one of the cases did not have any symptoms while out and about in the community.
"This is not the strain that is currently circulating in Sydney. This is the Alpha strain, which is the UK strain. But we are still concerned," she said.
One of the two cases is a worker at the Brisbane airport DFO that was previously listed as an exposure site, but authorities do not believe they contracted it while at work there.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young instead said the new cases — a couple — could be linked back to the existing Portuguese Family Centre cluster.
"One of them is a DFO worker and was at work on that Saturday, June 19, but we do not believe that they contracted [it] while at work there," she said.
"We know they are known to, friends of, some of the people that attended that Portuguese restaurant … so we suspect that's where the linkage has happened."
The second case, the DFO worker's partner, developed symptoms on June 23, and is deemed to have been infectious from June 21.
"They have also been to a lot of venues, a lot of different sites, and they work in the Sunshine Coast," Dr Young said.
"So we'll be going through all of that with both of them, and we'll get all the information on the [Queensland Health] website."
It is understood the DFO staffer also worked at the Brisbane watch house, and Dr Young said police had responded "very quickly" in closing it down.
Ms Palaszczuk warned Queenslanders against travelling to New South Wales, which is facing an outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant.
"We're in school holidays, and I cannot be clearer … we are urging Queenslanders, do not go to New South Wales," she said.
"If you are holidaying at the moment in New South Wales, you should reconsider that and think about returning home. What is happening at the moment in New South Wales is very, very concerning."
Dr Young said a hard border closure would depend on what happened in NSW, but it was definitely "a possibility".
Restrictions re-introduced from tomorrow
Just days after restrictions were loosened, Queensland will put additional restrictions back in place for two weeks from 6:00am Monday.
Pubs, clubs and cafes will revert to a one-person-per-two-square-metres rule, and private gatherings at homes will be capped at 100 people, including children and infants.
Queensland has also ordered people in the state who've been in 35 local government areas locked down in New South Wales to abide by lockdown restrictions.
Ms Palaszczuk said tonight's State of Origin game in Brisbane would go ahead as planned.
Flight crew member tests positive
Urgent contact tracing is underway after a Virgin Australia cabin crew member tested positive for COVID-19 after flying between major cities including Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Dr Young said everyone on the flights would be deemed a close contact and would go into quarantine for 14 days.
"Fortunately, the flights were fairly empty because of all of the restrictions, with Sydney," she said.
On Saturday the Northern Territory recorded a positive case in a FIFO mine worker who NT authorities believed may have caught the virus in Brisbane.
"He flew in from Victoria into Brisbane, stayed nine hours overnight, then flew on to the Northern Territory," Dr Young said.
"He was on that Floor 5 of the Novotel Hotel at the Brisbane Airport, [where] we had another transmission event.
"Because he was on that floor, he was asked to get tested, which he did – and that came back positive.
"I've asked, and it's happening as we speak, that every single person on that floor … has now been moved to different floors."
Dr Young said NT authorities told Queensland Health that about 700 mine workers had been deemed close contacts, and said any of them who were in Queensland were being contacted for testing.
"We know that people can spread this when they don't have symptoms, and that's our job then to contact trace and find those people. If you've been to certain venues, we ask you to get tested, even if you haven't had any symptoms."
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