Toowoomba’s The Ridge shopping centre reveals Jamaica Blue Coffee customer had COVID

A Toowoomba cafe inside a major shopping centre has been closed for deep cleaning after a customer tested positive for COVID-19.

A patron of a popular coffee spot in Toowoomba has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the shopping centre’s management.

The Ridge shopping centre in Kearney Springs, in a social media post on Tuesday, stated it had received confirmed from Queensland Health that a customer of its Jamaica Blue Coffee outlet had tested positive for coronavirus.

The customer visited the coffee spot on March 26 between 11.15am and 12.15pm.

Jamaica Blue Coffee has been closed as a precaution and the shopping centre underwent a deep clean on Monday night.

A customer at a Toowoomba cafe has tested positive to COVID-19.

Anyone who had visited the cafe on Friday at that time is advised to self-isolate until they receive a negative COVID-19 test.

Queensland Health has since updated its coronavirus contact tracing list to include The Ridge shopping centre.

According to Queensland Health, anyone who visited the Jamaica Blue cafe between 10.30am and 12pm on March 26 should quarantine for a total of 14 days, starting from the day of their visit.

They should remain in quarantine for 14 days even if they return a negative COVID-19 test.

Anyone who was at The Ridge shopping centre on March 26 between 10.30am and 12.15pm should get tested immediately and self-isolate until a negative COVID-19 test is returned.

This comes after confusion around why the Northern Territory government had declared Toowoomba a hot spot for the purposes of travel into the jurisdiction, despite no cases being linked to the regional city.

Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young said that her NT counterpart was being “ultra cautious”.

Dr Young did confirm there had been a group of people from Toowoomba who had gone to a pub that was an exposure site in Brisbane before heading back to the regional city.

“We’ve not had any positive cases among that group, but they were at one of the venues of concern. So that’s why the Chief Health Officer in the Northern Territory gave that advice to his Government,” she said.

“It doesn’t actually mean that I’m particularly concerned about Toowoomba, but it’s an area we’re looking at, as we are the entire state.”