Qld coronavirus: State records zero new cases of Covid-19

Logan Hospital has been named as an exposure venue after a Covid-positive nurse visited there for 20 minutes. It comes as Queensland recorded no new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

Logan Hospital has been added as an exposure venue after a COVID-19 positive student nurse visited for 20 minutes on June 28.

The location was listed by Queensland Health as Logan Hospital “from the main entrance via main corridor to the antenatal clinic” between 8.30am and 8.40am, with a second entry for a return trip back to the entrance from 9.20am to 9.30am on June 28.

It comes as Queensland recorded no new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, but with thousands of people still in home and hotel quarantine and with Sydney battling a significant outbreak, the state is still not out of the woods.

Less than a week after parts of the state came out of lockdown, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Queensland had experienced a “doughnut day”, with no cases in home or hotel quarantine.

“That is absolutely great news,” she said.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said it was an excellent result but that the state was still not completely safe, with 8679 close contacts still in quarantine.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces a ‘doughnut day’ for Queensland with zero new cases of Covid-19 in home or hotel quarantine. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Dr Young said she was not 100 per cent confident that Queensland did not have any asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the community that could still spread the virus.

“It’s too early to relax yet,” she said.

“I’m feeling more and more confident each day but not totally confident yet.”

Dr Young said she would be comfortable the outbreak would be over once all the close contacts in home quarantine return a negative exit test.

She said she hoped to be able to declare the most recent outbreaks contained by next Friday.

Ms Palaszczuk said Queensland would look “very closely” at the state’s borders with NSW being the epicentre of a Delta variant outbreak.

“Everyone is keeping a really close eye on what’s happening and next week is going to be crucial,” the Premier said.

“We are monitoring it over the next week and see what action the NSW Government take.”

Ms Palaszczuk said she had put vaccination of fly-in, fly-out workers and airline workers on the agenda of the next National Cabinet meeting.

Dr Young admitted she was frustrated by Maroons player Jai Arrow’s Covid breach.

“But I know that the NRL is probably even more frustrated than I am,” Dr Young said.

Jai Arrow has been fined and suspended for a serious Covid breach while in Origin camp. Picture: NRL Images

“They’ve taken it extremely seriously. They let me know they became aware, they acted, they worked it through.”

Dr Young said she was confident with the NRL’s Covid-19 plan, despite the breach.

“Their plan is superb,” she said.

“There are breaches that occur. They’re aware of them. They deal with them very, very quickly and there’s no risk to the community.”

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she had talked to Queensland coach Paul Green about the breach this morning.

“He’s very disappointed. I share his disappointment,” Ms Palasczuk said. “I think it’s a big wakeup call to everyone to do the right thing.

“It was a very respectful conversation and he just wanted to ring me to let me know how disappointed he was because everything had been going so well.”

Both Ms Palaszczuk and Dr Young gave a shoutout to the state’s contact tracers for keeping the state safe.

“They are keeping the rest of us safe,” she said.

“I want to thank every single one of them.”

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says it is still too early to declare the end of recent outbreaks of Covid-19 in Queensland. Picture: John Gass

Ms Palaszczuk warned businesses the Queensland Government’s check-in app became mandatory from today, including camping sites and churches.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath pleaded with Queenslanders to keep getting tested and vaccinated.

Ms D’Ath said that overnight more than 8000 extra businesses had registered for the Covid check-in app.

“If you haven’t yet, time’s up,” she said.

Ms D’Ath said while Queensland celebrated zero new cases in the past 24 hours, internationally the number of deaths from Covid-19 had risen above four million.

Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said three fines were issued on Thursday.

He said police were often being abused by people who were told to put on a mask.

He said there was “overall very good compliance” with quarantine checks and on the state’s borders.

Queensland on Thursday recorded three new cases of Covid-19 – two of them as a result of community transfer, but tied to the existing Carindale cluster.

A third case was acquired overseas and picked up in hotel quarantine.

Thousands of close contacts of existing clusters remain in home quarantine, with health authorities waiting for final Covid-19 test to determine whether the Delta strain has been contained.