Logan can breathe easy as border hopper cases die down: Steven Miles

WATCH THE VIDEO: The Health Minister says Logan can breathe easily today — the COVID-19 cluster outbreak, triggered by two women who came into Queensland from Melbourne, is over after 14 days with no community-transmitted infections.

Health Minister Steven Miles said Logan had emerged from the COVID clusters sparked by two women who entered Queensland from Melbourne.

Logan can breathe easily today – the COVID-19 cluster outbreak triggered by two women who came into Queensland after being in Melbourne is OVER.

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That’s the official word from Health Minister Steven Miles who said today was a milestone in Logan after 14 days of no new cases linked to the Wacol Youth Detention Centre, the Corrections Training Academy and Park Ridge outbreaks.

After declaring victory over those Logan outbreaks, the state announced Covid restrictions will be eased tomorrow allowing gatherings of up to 30 people in private homes.

Visitors will also be allowed in to aged care homes and hospitals in Logan and across Brisbane, Ipswich and Redlands as of tomorrow.

Mr Miles said Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young was confident the outbreak at the Youth Detention Centre was directly linked to at least one of the women who crossed into Queensland after being in Melbourne.

“That just gives you a sense of how one person can trigger a chain of events and lots and lots of cases and put lots of people’s lives out and cause great inconvenience while we get back on top of things,” he said.

“We are really fortunate that we have been able to, limit those clusters as far as we have.

“Now that it 14 days science any of those cases were infectious in the community we think it is most likely that those clusters are under control.”

Dr Young said the risks could not be dismissed completely and said she still needed 5000 tests conducted a week to stay on top of the spread.

“That’s why I keep on saying each day I really want to see at least that 5000 figure achieved, to give us some assurance that we don’t have missing cases out there,” she said.

“We also know that around 20 per cent of people are totally asymptomatic.”