Queensland has issued new restrictions for travellers from Sydney s Northern Beaches, including mandatory hotel quarantine from Saturday as the coronavirus cluster grows.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young released the details late on Thursday night for anyone who has recently been in the Northern Beaches region after its coronavirus cases spiked to 17.
Anyone who was in the Northern Beaches region on or since Friday, December 11 and is already in Queensland should get tested and quarantine in their home or accommodation for 14 days from the date they left the Northern Beaches.
Anyone who was in the Northern Beaches region on or since Friday, December 11 and arrives in Queensland on a flight from Sydney after midnight tonight must get tested and quarantine in their home or accommodation for 14 days from the date they left the Northern Beaches.
Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory said returning residents or visitors who had been to the northern beaches since December 11 needed to be tested and enter either hotel quarantine or self quarantine for 14 days. Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan extended the quarantine requirements to all arrivals from NSW. On Thursday night, NSW Health increased the number of possible community transmission sites on the northern beaches to 30. Anyone who visited the locations – including an Aldi supermarket, Commonwealth Bank branch and a Chemist Warehouse outlet – must get tested immediately and self-isolate. “As a number of new cases are currently being interviewed, it is likely that a number of new venues will be identified and that people in the northern beaches may have attended these venues,” NSW Health said in a statement asking people to avoid unnecessary gatherings to assist the contact-tracing effort.
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Subscriber only Queensland s border with NSW will remain open at this stage despite revelations of a new community-acquired coronavirus case in Sydney. The Sunshine State s acting premier, Steven Miles, said chief health officer Jeannette Young was in discussions with her NSW counterpart, and the health department was confident the case had been contained. The report is concerning, Mr Miles told reporters on Wednesday. (But) it sounds like they have identified it relatively early. The real test is not so much this case - the fact they found it could be a good thing. What the chief health officers now need to determine is what level of community exposure there has been to this person as well as what the link is to known cases.
Politics by James Hall 16th Dec 2020 4:16 PM Queensland s border with NSW will remain open at this stage despite revelations of a new community-acquired coronavirus case in Sydney. The Sunshine State s acting premier, Steven Miles, said chief health officer Jeannette Young was in discussions with her NSW counterpart, and the health department was confident the case had been contained. The report is concerning, Mr Miles told reporters on Wednesday. (But) it sounds like they have identified it relatively early. The real test is not so much this case - the fact they found it could be a good thing. What the chief health officers now need to determine is what level of community exposure there has been to this person as well as what the link is to known cases.
Sydney s Northern Beaches COVID-19 cluster has grown again after a close contact of one of today s new cases tested positive to the virus.
The partner of an aged care worker at the Pittwater Palms retirement village in Avalon is the latest person to test positive to coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed infections in the area over the past 24 hours to five.
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Large queues at Mona Vale COVID-19 testing clinic after new cases were diagnosed.(Nick Moir)
Today s new cases include a man in his 60s from Frenchs Forest; the aged care worker, who is aged in her 60s; and her partner, a man aged in his 70s.