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The Ministry of Health is not recommending any changes to the trans-Tasman travel bubble at this stage, as the risk to public health is regarded as low.
Premium Content Subscriber only Queensland Health has issued urgent health advice to anyone who has been to a declared NSW exposure site and is currently in Queensland - they must quarantine at home immediately. For those who have returned from NSW, but have not been to a listed exposure site, should get tested if they develop any symptoms. Chief health officer Jeannette Young said it was crucial that anyone who had been to the exposure sites undertook quarantine at home. "NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not...
Sydney Harbour. Photo: AFP The man from Sydney's eastern suburbs has not been overseas recently, and does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or health role, setting off alarms on how he contracted the virus in the community. "Within two weeks, we'll know if the virus' spread is growing or not," said Professor Raina MacIntyre, an expert in global biosecurity and infectious disease from the University of NSW. "It is worrying because it's unknown where this man acquired this infection. Who did they get infected from? That's the real question of interest." MacIntyre believes the man's infect...
Queenslanders have been put on alert after NSW recorded a new local Covid case with no known link to other infections. NSW Health revealed on Wednesday a man in his 50s from Sydney's eastern suburbs tested positive to the virus after visiting a spate of venues across the city. Queensland Health have now ordered anyone in the Sunshine State who visited a Covid exposure site in NSW during the specified times to quarantine at home. 'NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not getting on flights,' Queensland Chief Hea...
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Photo: AFP The man in his 50s was tested yesterday after symptoms emerged and his results came back today. Authorities believe the man, who has not been vaccinated, has been infectious since Friday. He had not been overseas or worked in Sydney's hotel quarantine system so authorities were keeping an open mind while working to find the source of the infection, NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said. She said authorities hoped genome sequencing would identify the source of the infection, which could be from interstate. Chant said the man's cycl...