It s been a great start to the year for us, new mum Sarah said. Proud parents Sarah Jackowski and Dewald Van Der Ryst welcomed Luka into the world on New Year s Day. Picture: SCUH Swimming legend Dawn Fraser donated Luka s blanket and beanie to the hospital s health foundation, Wishlist. As of 1pm on New Year s Day, a total of three babies had been born. In 2019, SCUH welcomed 3204 babies into the world, the sixth most in the state. In another birthday milestone on New Year s Day, Golden Beach resident Marjorie Marlan (nee Robinson) hit the century mark surrounded by family. new baby
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Subscriber only From a wild Snapchat brawl where a teenage girl s neck was slashed and a police chase through suburban Maroochydore to $12,000 in fines handed out at a COVID-19 related party - in a year where headlines where dominated by the pandemic, the
Sunshine Coast Daily has taken a look back on 2020 to find the stories you may have missed. Here are 20 yarns that stood out in 2020.
1. SNAPCHAT SLASHING A war of words which erupted on social media sparked a violent teenage brawl at Kawana Shoppingworld which ended in a girl s throat being slashed by a box cutter.
Queensland Health confirmed on Thursday that the woman was felling well and asymptomatic . A spokesman said other passengers aboard the woman s flight were in hotel quarantine. Standard COVID-19 precautions are being taken, including appropriate infection control procedures to protect treating clinicians, a spokesman said. Two cases were confirmed in Queensland on Wednesday, both arrived from Pakistan and Ghana. The Coast woman with the South African strain of SARS-CoV-2 is not linked to the two other cases.
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Queensland health chiefs warned they are watching the COVID-19 outbreak in NSW very closely as authorities continue to monitor quarantined passengers who arrived with Australia s first known case of the South African variant.
South Australia rushed to shut its border with NSW on Thursday, after the state announced a further ten coronavirus cases.
Currently, Queenslanders coming home from NSW must isolate in hotel quarantine only if they ve been to Sydney, but otherwise are freely allowed into the state.
The Sunshine State recorded two new virus cases on Wednesday, both acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.
The travellers had arrived from Pakistan and Ghana and were not linked to the woman in her 20s who landed in Brisbane carrying the 501.V2 South African strain on December 22, a Queensland Health spokesman said.