Health by Janelle Miles
Premium Content John Gerrard admits he d often wondered whether the big global pandemic he d spent decades planning and training for as an infectious disease physician was nothing more than fanciful science fiction. But that changed exactly a year ago today, when a sick tourist from the Chinese city of Wuhan was diagnosed on the Gold Coast with a mystery coronavirus that had started sweeping the world. The 44-year-old man, part of a travelling group of nine from Wuhan, was Queensland s patient zero, the first confirmed case in the state of a virus that 12 months on, has killed more than 2.1 million people globally - and counting.
Queensland recorded no new locally acquired cases of the coronavirus virus for the 14th day in a row, but two people tested positive in hotel quarantine.
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Subscriber only A motorcyclist has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after a crash north of Mackay overnight. Emergency services were called to the single motorcycle crash at Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.32pm. A man in his 30s suffered critical injuries in a motorbike crash on Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.30pm Monday, January 25.
Rae Wilson The driver, a man in his 30s, was treated for critical injuries at the scene and taken to Mackay Hospital under lights and sirens. Police investigations into the crash are ongoing. Debris and police investigation markings left after a motorbike crash on Whitehaven Dr in Blacks Beach about 11.30pm Monday, January 25.
A motorbike rider has been hurt in a crash on the Bruxner Highway, east of Tenterfield, this morning. The 52-year-old man was airlifted to the Gold Coast University Hospital shortly after 9 o'clock suffering multiple injuries. He remains in a serious condition. (NO VIDEO) by Lachlan Grant | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather