A state school in Windaroo, south of Brisbane, has been closed for a fortnight following the discovery of a COVID-19 case at a nearby education facility.
The move came after a four-year-old girl who attended the Boulevard Early Learning Centre at Mount Warren Park tested positive as a close contact of a 46-year-old truck driver from Logan, confirmed with the Delta variant earlier this week.
The early learning centre is used as after-school care for Windaroo State School.
Windaroo principal Alisha LeBrese said in an email to parents the school would need to be shut for 14 days from Saturday.
"I am writing to let you know that several members of our school community have been exposed to someone diagnosed with COVID-19," Ms LeBrese wrote.
"All school, school events and activities are closed and postponed.
"The health, safety and welfare of your children, our students, continues to be my number one focus."
Children, staff and visitors who were at the early learning centre on Tuesday and Wednesday are being urged to immediately come forward for testing then quarantine at home for 14 days, even if they test negative to COVID-19.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said about 960 families at Windaroo school had been placed in quarantine for 14 days, along with staff and visitors who were at the school from Tuesday to Friday.
About 100 families of children who attend the early learning centre are also in quarantine.
Dr Young said the next few days were critical.
“This is a really high risk period for us,” she said.
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)Dr Young said the child's viral load was low, and her main concern was the truck driver's visit to shops in Beenleigh.
"I am actually not as worried about this child because it's in hand. We have got it under control," she said.
"[Lockdown] depends if we find cases who went to the Beenleigh Marketplace, and have since then been out infectious in the community in an uncontrolled situation.
"That would lead me to think that we need to consider a lockdown."
Check-in concerns
The Stylish Nails salon in the marketplace was of particular concern.
"I just hope that we get everyone, so we have been working very, very closely with the owner of the nail salon and we have been looking at CCTV footage, we have been trying every way we can to find those people who attended," Dr Young said.
"That's critical. So anyone who was there on that Monday morning, I need them to come forward."
There was just one other new COVID case recorded yesterday, in hotel quarantine.
The truck driver is thought to have been infectious from August 27, prompting several contact tracing alerts on Brisbane's southside.
Visitor restrictions are in place for aged care facilities, disability services and hospitals in the Logan local government area.
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)Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said compliance with the Queensland Check-In app at Beenleigh Marketplace had been low.
"Sadly what we have seen is that people were not checking in. There was one person during that time checked in with the check in app at the nail salon," she said.
"But we know there was at least eight customers there in addition to this gentleman and the child and of course four staff.
"Similarly, 600 people checked into the Beenleigh marketplace. They have 900 car spots there, and they have over 30 shops."
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)New exposure sites
The Queensland Health exposure sites list names Stylish Nails at Beenleigh Marketplace as a close contact point between 10:30am and 11:35am on Monday, along with Total Tools Beenleigh between 9:20am and 10:00am on Sunday.
Anyone who was at those sites at the exposure times needs to come forward for testing and go into 14 days' quarantine – even after a negative result. Household contacts are also required to quarantine for 14 days.
Close contacts also need to complete an online tracing form on the Queensland Health website.
There's also a casual contact alert for Beenleigh Marketplace on Monday between 9:00am and 11:45am, and anyone who attended should come forward for testing and then isolate at home until they receive a result.
Anyone in Queensland, but particularly in the Beenleigh and Gold Coast areas, is urged to come forward for testing if they have even the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms.
Third of Queenslanders double dosed
Ms D'Ath said she was pleased to see that one in three eligible Queenslanders was now fully vaccinated.
"We had 20,635 vaccinations [yesterday]," she said.
"So well done everyone again for coming out and continuing to be vaccinated which puts us at 52.17 per cent first dose, and excitedly, 33.55 per cent second.
"So let's keep that great work going and coming out and getting vaccinated."
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