A health alert has been issued for supermarket shoppers in Calamvale and Sunnybank as well as anyone who visited a pizzeria, a supermarket and a bottle shop north of Brisbane.
As panic buying eased overnight, the reality of lockdown has hit those planning holidays, parties and baby showers with restrictions also capping weddings at 10 people and funerals at 20.
As an eerie silence fell across Brisbane on Friday night, the Health Minister hasn’t ruled out extending the lockdown with some saying it could stretch to 21 days.
Health authorities are in a race to trace close contacts of a Brisbane cleaner who was in the community for five days while infected.
The MCG has been declared a potential COVID-19 exposure site after an infected man attended the Boxing Day test. It comes as QLD records one new case.
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Queensland’s risk of COVID-19 escaping hotel quarantine ‘is continuing to escalate’, warns the Chief Health Officer amid a spike in returned traveller cases today.
Staff at Queensland’s fever clinics have been doubled in a bid to drastically reduce huge queues at COVID-19 testing clinics. It comes as the Chief Health Officer explained the reason for the long waits.
Queensland authorities have revealed just how few people have been successful in skipping hotel quarantine as they flag further crackdowns.
Travellers from parts of NSW and greater Sydney will be forced to get a coronavirus test and quarantine until they get results under tough new border measures for entering Queensland.
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