Queensland has recorded a new mystery Covid case as authorities fear exposure sites will keep soaring with the woman infectious in the community for 10 days.
Queensland has recorded a new locally acquired Covid-19 case who was infectious across Brisbane’s north for 10 days.
The new infection, a woman in her 50s, has not yet been linked to a known cluster.
The woman lives in Fitzgibbon, which has triggered concern for a number of venues in Redcliffe, Chermside and Cannon Hill.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young urged residents in Brisbane’s north to monitor for symptoms and to get tested immediately as the mystery case sparked fears of community transmission.
“We will get genome sequencing back to try to work out where this person has acquired the infection, but at this stage there are no close links that we've been able to identify,” she told reporters on Monday morning.
“She hasn’t been to any known exposure sites. So all of the exposure sites that she’s been at while infectious are up on our website and we'll continue to work with her to make sure that we’ve picked all of those up.”
Dr Young previously warned one local case would be enough to trigger a lockdown but has resisted advising Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to force stay-at-home orders despite multiple live clusters emerging across the southeast.
“The only thing that's reassuring me is the amount of testing that we’ve done,” she said.
“This has happened at the same time that we've had those restrictions in place and that enhanced testing.
“She (new infection) is also double vaccinated, so she’s fully vaccinated — her second dose was back in August and her household members are all negative.
“So I am reasonably reassured by all of that.”
Queensland Health is scrambling to trace and test dozens of venues with a number of new exposure sites located in Brisbane’s northern suburbs.
The list features a string of massage and beauty spas, with the latest exposure noted as Friday, October 1, at the Water Lilly Spa in Archerfield.
Anyone who visited the venue between 9am and 7pm is identified as a close contact and will need to isolate for 14 days regardless of a the result of the Covid test.
The other massage parlours as close contact venues are listed below:
- UME Massage Spa, Redcliffe, Saturday, September 5, 9am – 7pm
- Cannon Hill Massage, Cannon Hill, Sunday, September 26, 9am – 7pm
- Little Crown Massage, Slacks Creek, Monday, September 27, 9am – 7pm, and Wednesday, September 29, 8.40am – 7pm
- UMI Massage, Cannon Hill, Tuesday, September 28, 9.30am – 7pm
- Water Lilly Spa, Archerfield, Friday, October 1, 9am – 7pm
The full list of exposure venues can be found here.
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