Queensland Health authorities hint lockdown will ease as they record 27 new local cases
Chief Health Officer Doctor Jeannette Young has hinted Queensland could emerge from lockdown on Sunday after the latest figures showed they were in front of the virus.
David WuDigital Producer
August 5, 2021 - 10:35AM
Queensland Chief Health Officer Doctor Jeannette Young did not expect to be this far in front of the outbreak as she indicated the state is doing brilliantly . The fact we only had five days of people being infectious in the community so between four people out and about in the community for five days while infectious, she said.
Southeast Queensland residents are being urged to stay at home after 16 new locally acquired cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 were recorded in Brisbane.
Four people have been fined after travelling from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast
Three men and a woman, in their 20s, each fined $1378 for breaching lockdown
District Superintendent Craig Hawkin said they were drinking on the beach
Police issued 48 penalty notices Tuesday - including 34 for lockdown breaches
It comes as QLD recorded 16 new locally acquired Covid cases on Wednesday
Victoria recorded no new local cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday for the first day since the Delta outbreak in mid-July.
No new exposure sites have been added since Saturday as 3,000 people of more than 20,000 primary close contacts from the outbreak remain in isolation.
Active infections fell from 124 cases to 99.
There were 30,000 tests administered in Victoria on Tuesday, while 17,612 vaccine doses were given.
Lord Mayor Sally Capp said it was still too early to say if the New Year’s Eve festival would take place this year after the $3.4-million celebration was ditched in 2020.
“We’re in active discussions with the Victorian government about what may be possible to safely deliver,” she said, adding that the city would be guided by health advice.
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