Queensland Health on alert after Sydney COVID-19 case
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Queensland Health is urging anyone who has been to the exposure sites in NSW after a man with COVID-19 visited multiple Sydney venues while infectious.
Following NSW releasing a list of exposure sites the eastern suburbs of Sydney on Wednesday dating back to April 30, Queensland Health has warned anyone in Queensland who has visited the sites needed to self isolate, call 13 HEALTH and get a COVID-19 test as soon as possible.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has warned anyone who has visited the Sydney venues to isolate.
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Queenslanders have been put on alert after NSW recorded a new local Covid case with no known link to other infections.
NSW Health revealed on Wednesday a man in his 50s from Sydney s eastern suburbs tested positive to the virus after visiting a spate of venues across the city.
Queensland Health have now ordered anyone in the Sunshine State who visited a Covid exposure site in NSW during the specified times to quarantine at home. NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not getting on flights, Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned more locally-acquired Covid-19 cases are likely after a man from Sydney s east picked up the virus.
Ms Berejiklian on Wednesday said the man in his 50s has not recently travelled overseas, does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or a health role and has no idea where he caught the coronavirus.
He also has not recently travelled interstate.
The man s positive result was recorded on Wednesday morning and NSW Health believe he has been infectious since last Friday.
Ms Berejiklian on Wednesday said the man in his 50s has not recently travelled overseas, does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or a health role and has no idea where he caught the coronavirus
Health authorities have found three new cases of coronavirus on board the gas tanker Inge Kosan which is off the Queensland coast.
The new cases on Thursday take the total number of COVID-19 cases among people on the British-flagged gas tanker to 11.
The Inge Kosan is currently anchored off Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast with state authorities containing and treating the active cases aboard the ship.
The Inge Kosan is seen anchored off the coast of the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday. Health workers will assess COVID-positive crew on board a British-flagged tanker after the ship was given permission to anchor