Queensland has confirmed two Covid-19 cases after it was revealed a Melbourne case breached lockdown restrictions to go on a road trip across two other sta
Queensland Covid scare: Melbourne couple escape lockdown, one tests positive Wed, 9 Jun 2021, 7:46PM
Queensland s Health Minister Yvette D Ath and chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young. (Photo / Getty Images)
Queensland Covid scare: Melbourne couple escape lockdown, one tests positive Wed, 9 Jun 2021, 7:46PM
A Melbourne couple have sparked a Covid scare in Queensland after leaving lockdown and travelling to the Sunshine Coast.
The pair are reported to have spent several days in regional New South Wales before moving north to Queensland on June 5, where a 44-year-old woman tested positive in Caloundra on June 8.
Queensland still regards Melbourne to be a Covid hotspot, with travellers from the southern state s capital required to complete hotel quarantine on arrival.
 A Melbourne woman on a roadtrip far from lockdown managed to cross two state borders into NSW and Queensland last week without realising she was infected with Covid-19. Travelling with her partner from one of Melbourne s outer suburbs, the woman, 44, left Victoria on June 1, four days after Victoria s lockdown started. She tested positive at Caloundra on the picturesque Sunshine Coast on June 8 after joining relatives there, but had been experiencing symptoms since as early as June 3. The Melbourne woman is being managed by Sunshine Coast University Hospital staff and her partner is also in hospital being monitored in case he develops symptoms with concerns he may catch the virus after spending so much time inside the car.
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Subscriber only A Melbourne couple has skipped Victoria s lockdown and brought the Covid-19 virus to Queensland with health authorities scrambling to minimise the chance of a potential outbreak. It s understood the case involving a 44-year-old woman was picked up by sheer luck, with the couple only getting tested so her husband could get a Covid clearance requested by his workplace. The situation threatens to ruin Queensland s run of no locally acquired cases for nine weeks. The woman returned the shock positive in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday after leaving Greater Melbourne with her partner on June 1, despite Victoria entering lockdown on May 28.