Queensland has recorded four local cases of the Alpha strain of Covid-19 just two days after the state emerged from lockdown.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters at a press conference on Monday morning that all new cases are linked to a known cluster.
The infections include a mother who works at a Greek community centre in Brisbane and her child, along with two close contacts of a man who travelled to Eumundi on the Sunshine Coast - his partner, and a colleague.
Chief Health officer Dr Jeannette Young explained three of the four cases contracted the virus after they went to Zeus Street Greek Kitchen at Westfield Chermside, in the city s north.
‘Excellent news’: Queensland records just two new cases on Sunday
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Authorities remain confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters are “under control”, as the state recorded two new cases on Sunday, one of them from community transmission.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the locally acquired case was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster, while the second was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”
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NSW has recorded 16 new locally acquired Covid-19 infections in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday.
Medical officers walk past a sign board of Covid-19 testing center on Bondi Beach in Sydney on May 6, 2021.
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Of those, 13 were in isolation while infectious.
More than 45,000 tests were completed in the reporting period.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the next few days were absolutely critical . Whilst the numbers overnight are very encouraging compared to the previous day, we know that they still have a potential to bounce around, and we still know that the next few days are absolutely critical, Berejiklian said.
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Early on Sunday, authorities were confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters were “under control”, but later, another person tested positive, taking the day’s tally to three cases – two locally acquired.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said of the first two cases that one was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster while the other was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”