Adelaide Origin ticketholders banned from Suncorp Stadium

Anyone who bought a ticket to Wednesday night’s State of Origin decider at Suncorp Stadium from Adelaide has been banned from attending, with Queensland’s Health Minister warning of heavy fines for anyone who attempts to breach the rules.

Ticketek has traced all State of Origin tickets that were purchased from Adelaide ahead of Wednesday night’s game, with each person to be informed that they cannot attend.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said five people had purchased tickets who had been in Adelaide since November 9.

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“They will be advised that they are required to be in quarantine and cannot attend that game,” she said.

“There are fines if anyone breaches the quarantine rules.”

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Ms D’Ath stressed the game was a ticketed event with allocated seats.

“We know where every single person is sitting,” she said.

“If there is any positive test we know all of the individuals who are directly seated around any positive person and we’re able to directly contact them.

“Those people from Adelaide, we know exactly where their allocated seat in that stadium.

“We know whether they attend or not and at the gate we would know from that seat that they shouldn’t be there.”

The Maroons celebrate winning game one of the 2020 State of Origin series in Adelaide. Picture: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

It comes as Queensland recorded one new case of COVID-19 today, which was acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.

More than 4400 people were tested in the past 24 hours.

The Health Minister also said Queensland had not slammed the borders shut to South Australia too early, despite there only being the one new case.

As of this morning, the total number of actual and suspected cases of the Parafield Cluster in South Australia was 20.

However under the national definition, a COVID hotspot can be declared when there are 0.4 cases per 100,000 people.

This equates to 49 for South Australia.

Asked whether Queensland had pulled the trigger too early, Ms D’Ath said not at all.

“We have 18 cases in a matter of days in South Australia and importantly these are locally acquired cases in the community,” she said.

“There is significant contact tracing going on.”

Ms D’Ath said authorities did not know what the total number of positive cases was yet.

She said Queensland wasn’t alone in shutting its borders, saying the state had taken action very quickly.

While there is a national definition of a hotspot, states are free to make their own border decisions.

But she would also not be drawn on whether she believed New South Wales should shut its border to Adelaide.

“I’m not going to have a running commentary on New South Wales,” she said.

“We’re interested in Queensland.

“If the Chief Health Officer says we need to put further restrictions in place around other borders then we will listen to that advice but that is not the advice that I am getting right now.”