Restrictions including mandatory masks indoors and 30-person caps on household gatherings will be removed for the Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Tweed shires at 11.59pm.
No community transmission amongst new Queensland cases Deputy Premier Steven Miles has revealed Queensland has recorded four new cases of COVID-19 – all acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.
Health by Janelle Miles, Danielle O’Neal, Jack McKay 5th Apr 2021 10:41 AM
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Subscriber only Queensland has recorded four new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, all acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine. The state currently has 75 active cases of COVID with more than 7500 tests in the past 24 hours. Deputy Premier Steven Miles said one of the new cases had been in Papua New Guinea, one had returned from Lebanon and two from India.
75,000 fly into Cairns as tourism operators enjoy busy Easter weekend
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More than 75,000 people flew into Cairns over the Easter weekend as Queenslandâs tourism sector bounced back after Brisbaneâs three-day COVID-19 lockdown.
With no new local cases of coronavirus recorded on Monday, health authorities are increasingly confident Queensland is getting on top of its latest outbreak.
Cairns tourism operators experienced a busy Easter weekend.Â
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But the rainy weather in south-east Queensland and the COVID-19 scare in Byron Bay in northern NSW put a dampener on other Easter trade this year.
The Byron Bays Bluefest, which was expected to attract 15,000 people over four days, was cancelled after one coronavirus case in the popular resort town. The festival was due to pump $200 million into the local economy.
Queensland has recorded zero new COVID-19 cases through community transmission and four cases from overseas travellers who are currently in hotel quarantine.
Engineers will be called into the Princess Alexandra Hospital s Ward 5D to assess air circulation as a potential cause for two separate COVID-19 virus clusters. The investigation comes as Health Minister Yvette D Ath revealed a single area in the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital could be used to care for the majority of Queensland s COVID patients in the wake of the outbreaks. Suspicions into a possible common cause of both clusters are focused on an isolation room inside the PA Hospital s Ward 5D, where two so-called super-spreader patients were cared for at different times last month. The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, where a probe is underway into two separate COVID-19 clusters. Photo: Dan Peled.