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Queensland has recorded four new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, all of which are linked to existing infections, as it moves ahead with plans for a purpose-built quarantine hub.
One case reported on Sunday is a close contact of a worker at a Greek community centre in Brisbane, and another is their child.
The other two cases are the partner and a colleague of a 29-year-old man who tested positive after travelling to the Noosa area last week.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says contact tracers have linked almost all active cases in the state. All of these are the Alpha strains, so another piece of good news is that we do not believe that the Delta variant is circulating in our community, the premier told reporters.
The operator said the residents would be transferred to Westmead Hospital as a precaution.
Two nurses at the centre have also previously tested positive.
The home said 96 per cent of residents had been vaccinated, but two-thirds of the staff at the centre are not vaccinated. Â
Queensland feeling good with no Delta variant circulating
The state s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young also said contact tracers found a missing link between three cases, which was that all three of them went to the Zeus Street Greek Kitchen at Westfield Chermside at the same time.Â
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said officials didn t believe the Delta variant was in the community and we re feeling pretty good at where we are at the moment .
Queensland has recorded five new local cases of Covid overnight - but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the lockdown for millions of residents will still end at 6pm on Saturday night.
The state detected a mystery local Covid case late on Friday evening, with Brisbane and the neighbouring Moreton Bay residents fearing that would jeopardise their chance of being freed from the four-day lockdown.
The Premier eased those fears in a press conference on Saturday morning despite confirming the five new community cases. There were 25,145 tests conducted in Queensland on Friday. The lockdown will end at 6:00pm tonight. But we are not out of the woods yet. So, I want to talk about a few things that I really need Queenslanders to do, especially in the south-east and, of course, Townsville, she said.
Brisbane Lockdown Ends at 6PM but ‘Not out of the Woods Yet’
The Brisbane and Moreton Bay lockdown measures will end at 6 p.m. on Saturday, with restrictions remaining in place in certain local government areas until July 16.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Saturday morning thanked residents for their co-operation in locking down for an extra day, but she stressed “we are not out of the woods yet.”
While restrictions remain in place for certain local government areas the premier urged businesses not to allow people into their premises unless they have checked in with a phone app as part of the state’s CCP virus restrictions.
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I am the opposite of vaccine-hesitant. I’m vaccine … enthusiastic! I’ve always embraced vaccines; the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine in high school; Gardasil in my 20s; the yellow fever vaccine when I moved to Uganda in 2012. Vaccines have overwhelmingly been a force for good in my life; they’ve allowed me to travel and not get - say - cervical cancer.
Since our COVID 19 vaccine rollout began in February, I’ve been patiently waiting my turn towards the tail end of an increasingly backlogged queue with the rest of the under-40s. Like most Australians, I have watched with a degree of helplessness as the goalposts shifted and then shifted again leaving us lagging significantly behind the rest of the developed world in our rollout.