Queensland s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they really needed to open their front door or go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.
Queensland recorded 16 new local Covid cases on Wednesday including a mystery case in Cairns that has a different, unknown source to the main outbreak in Brisbane 1,600km away.
The Delta strain outbreak that began last week now has 100 cases in the state, more than at any time since Australia s first Covid wave early last year.
Queensland s Dr Jeannette Young changes her tune on the AstraZeneca vaccine
Dr Young on Monday said she didn t want 18-year-olds getting the vaccine
But Dr Young said today that was a conversation for people to have with GPs
Queensland announced 16 new cases at its Tuesday morning Covid update
The state accepts 150,000 more doses of AstraZeneca from federal government
South-east Queensland s lockdown has been extended until Sunday
AstraZeneca expects results from its US coronavirus vaccine trials within six WEEKS - and data suggests the Oxford-designed shot DOES work against UK super-covid AND reduces transmission
AstraZeneca could finish its US trials for its 70% effective vaccine in four to six weeks, said firm research chief Mene Pangalos on Friday
Data that has not been reviewed suggests the shot is equally effective at preventing symptomatic infection from the UK s 70% more infectious variant
UK officials also said early data suggests it works as well in people over 65 as it does in younger people, after previous data suggested reduced efficacy
The Oxford-designed shot is the first to show a measured effect on transmission