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
Booze bus-style police checkpoints will be set up across south-east Queensland to enforce the region s lockdown as the state s Covid-19 outbreak continues to grow.
Queensland Police said the checkpoints would appear randomly in Brisbane and the Gold Coast to catch anyone breaking strict stay-at-home orders.
The state recorded another 16 cases of the virus on Tuesday as 11 local government areas endure a snap seven-day lockdown to slow the spread of the highly-contagious Delta variant.
Residents in those LGAs can only go out if they have an essential reason and must not travel more than 10km for exercise.
RBT-style police checkpoints will be set up across south-east Queensland to monitor the region s snap lockdown. Pictured is a similar roadside check in Sydney on Saturday to prevent protesters from gathering in the CBD to rally against the city s lockdown
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Queensland has reported 16 new locally acquired coronavirus cases linked to the Indooroopilly Delta cluster that plunged 11 areas, including Brisbane, into an eight-day lockdown.
At least nine of the latest positive cases were children.
One case was linked to Indooroopilly State High School, four were linked to Brisbane Grammar, two were linked to Brisbane Girls Grammar School with a student and a teacher testing positive, three at Ironside State School, five were household or family contacts of already confirmed cases and one was a neighbour of a known case.
The latest cases brings Queensland’s total number of COVID cases to 47.
Brisbaneâs COVID-19 cluster worsens
Aug 3, 2021 â 5.28pm
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Brisbaneâs latest COVID outbreak has grown to 47 after 16 new local cases were recorded on Tuesday, with growing concerns health authorities will struggle to contain the delta cluster before the eight-day lockdown ends on Sunday.
While the outbreak has so far been mostly contained to seven schools in Brisbane, the worst fears of health authorities were confirmed on Tuesday afternoon with a new positive case in Cairns.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles said he hoped the eight-day lockdown would be enough to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak.Â
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Queensland Health scrambled to see if the case in Far North Queensland was a historical case or linked to the Indooroopilly cluster.
Share on Facebook So wherever you are in those 11 LGAs, if you can at all, just stay put so that that virus then doesn t move, because we know that there are people out there who could have been infected, who have no symptoms. So the best way to deal with someone who has no symptoms is that they just stay at home. That s why lockdowns work, because we know that the virus can burn out. So please just stay at home.
Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said 70 infringement notices were issued and 21 people were arrested overnight.
He said police will move to install RBT-style roadblocks to enforce the hard lockdown.