Queensland School Shut After Student Gets CCP Virus
The Australian student became unwell on Thursday and tested positive overnight.
QLD Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said the girl’s family of five, who live in the Brisbane suburb of Taringa, were also being tested. Queensland Minister for Health Yvette D’Ath speaks at Parliament House in Brisbane, Australia on March 30, 2021. (Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
“We are treating this as if the young lady was infectious from the 27th [of July],” D’Ath told reporters on Friday morning. “So she’s been in the community for three days and at school for two days.”
Sydney under strict new lockdown rules as cases soar by Reuters
Thursday, 29 July 2021 23:48 GMT
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SYDNEY, July 30 (Reuters) - Millions in Sydney began their harshest lockdown since the pandemic began on Friday as COVID-19 cases spiked to record levels in Australia s largest city with state and national leaders set to meet to discuss the country s reopening plans.
With Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state, struggling under record surge of cases, officials toughened curbs across eight local council areas, where most new infections were being reported, and sought the military s help to enforce lockdown rules.
Covid-19: Sydney cases ease amid tightening of lockdown rules
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The military was summoned to help enforce restrictions in Australia s largest city.
Sydney on Friday reported a slight easing in locally acquired cases of Covid-19 amid a further tightening of restrictions in the worst-affected suburbs, with the military summoned to help enforce lockdown rules.
Millions in Australia s largest city began one of the country s harshest lockdowns since the pandemic started, after nearly five weeks of increasingly tough restrictions failed to quell an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.
Although cases dipped for the first time in nearly a week, state Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned cases could again rise due to the growing number of people positive with the Delta strain moving around in the community.
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This is exactly the type of news we wanted to hear today, Ms Palaszczuk said. This was the family that came out of hotel quarantine in Sydney and flew to Queensland and it has been confirmed that it is that Delta strain, that Sydney strain that is circulating in Sydney at the moment.
Ms Palaszczuk said Queensland will declare Victoria a hotspot from 1am tomorrow. That is 1am Saturday and that means that anyone returning after that time . will have to do the 14 days mandatory quarantine, she said. I just think the clear message to Queenslanders is definitely do not go to NSW and do not go to Victoria during this period of time.