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Families heartbroken Christmas plans disrupted after Queensland declares Sydney s Northern Beaches as a hotspot
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Coronavirus testing has been ramped up across south-east Queensland after Sydney s Northern Beaches was declared a coronavirus hotspot, with devastated families having Christmas plans disrupted at the last minute.
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Ms Palaszczuk has declared Sydney s Northern Beaches a coronavirus hotspot
Christmas plans for many families are disrupted at the last minute as a result of the hotspot declaration
No new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Queensland in the 24 hours to Saturday morning
Positive case from Sydney s Northern Beaches outbreak flew to Queensland while infectious
Queensland s Premier has confirmed the state has recorded a new case of coronavirus overnight after a woman from NSW travelled to Queensland and tested positive this week.
Annastacia Palaszczuk said the woman had visited the Avalon RSL, in Sydney s Northern Beaches, before coming to Queensland and visiting locations in Brisbane s south and the Sunshine Coast. This woman connected with the Northern Beaches cluster, Ms Palaszczuk said. She did visit the Glenn Hotel (in Eight Mile Plains) and she did go to the Sunshine Coast.
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Dr Jeannette Young said the lady in her 50s travelled from the Northern Beaches on December 16 on Virgin flight VA925 arriving into Brisbane airport at 9.30am.(AP)
Queenslanders urged to reconsider Sydney travel as COVID cluster grows
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Queenslanders have been urged to reconsider travel to Sydney, with health authorities saying more areas of the city could be declared hotspots if community transmission of COVID-19 is detected.
From 1am on Saturday, all travellers from Sydney’s northern beaches into Queensland will be required to spend 14 days in hotel quarantine on arrival.
A woman unknowingly infected with COVID-19 visited The Glen Hotel in Eight Mile Plains on December 16, 2020.
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Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the case associated with the Northern Beaches outbreak was infectious in South East Queensland for two days.
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18 December 2020
Queensland is recording three new cases of COVID-19 this morning, with one associated with the Sydney Northern Beaches outbreak.
The remaining two new cases today are overseas acquired and were detected in hotel quarantine.
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the case associated with the Northern Beaches outbreak was infectious in South East Queensland for two days.
“The woman in her 50s arrived in Brisbane on 16 December on flight VA925 and made her way to the Sunshine Coast,” she said.