Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk provides COVID-19 update from Cairns
Queensland has recorded two new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, a nurse and student both from the West Moreton region. Police have also apprehended a COVID-positive man who entered the state from Victoria.
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A nurse, school student and infected Victorian border dodger are among the new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Queensland in the past 24 hours.
All the new Queensland-based cases are linked to the Queensland Corrective Services Academy cluster in the state’s southeast.
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One of the infected is a 37-year-old male nurse from Ipswich Hospital and the other is a 18-year-old male student at Staines Memorial College, Redbank Plains.
The nurse, who was working in the hospital’s COVID ward, was suffering from abdominal pain, a symptom not usually associated with coronavirus.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has also revealed police apprehended a 48-year-old man who came from Victoria who was known to be positive with COVID-19.
He arrived via a flight (JQ560) at 9.19am yesterday.
“This is great work from the police that have been able to apprehend this man who was trying to get into Queensland,” she said.
“This goes to show how strong our order measures are and the fact that they are working.”
As of yesterday, there were 27 active cases in Queensland with Deputy Premier Steven Miles warning restrictions on large gatherings were likely to remain for at least another month.
Those restrictions, which limit visitors in homes to no more than 10, are in place across Brisbane, Logan, Toowoomba, Ipswich and the Gold Coast.
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