Covid update: Premier confirms Queensland has one new locally acquired case
Health authorities are working to trace the contacts of the latest outbreaks involving the highly contagious Delta strain.
Ipswich
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Restrictions are set to remain in place for Ipswich residents for at least another week, with the state recording only one new locally acquired case of Covid in the past 24 hours.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and chief health officer Jeanette Young provided an update on the state’s Covid situation on Friday morning.
The new case followed thee positive results announced on Thursday, with genomic sequencing confirming they were the highly-contagious Delta strain.
Ms Palaszczuk said the latest case was the mother of the 12-year-old boy who tested positive on Thursday.
The Premier said the woman was in quarantine when she tested positive and posed no risk to the community.
Queensland will shut its borders to Victoria, as the outbreak in the southern states worsens.
The mask mandate for Ipswich and the rest of southeast Queensland will continue for another week, as the state’s health authorities work to trace the contacts of the latest cases.
Several Ipswich locations including shops at Riverlink and CSI North Ipswich were listed as casual contact points for a positive Covid case this week, prompting staff and visitors to those places to be forced into isolation and undergo testing.
Thankfully, no new Ipswich locations have been added to the government’s contact list in the past 24 hours.
Mayor Teresa Harding this week urged her community to get tested and vaccinated after the local contact points came to light.
A new purpose-built fever clinic will open to the public on Saturday.
The Ipswich Hospital fever clinic has operated from the Jubilee Building opposite the emergency department entrance since March last year but that space will revert to clinical use.
West Moreton Health will open its new clinic in Court Street, near the East Street entrance.
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