Coronavirus: Queensland declares quarantine for Sydneysiders
Residents of several Sydney coronavirus “hot spots” will be forced to quarantine for two weeks if they want to travel north of the border into Queensland under strict orders from their state health department. SEE IF YOUR SUBURB IS ON THE LIST.
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Sydney residents in so-called “declared hotspots” for coronavirus will be forced by Queensland Health to quarantine for two weeks if they want to travel to the sunshine state.
Queensland’s chief health officer Jeanette Young ordered anyone who had travelled to a declared hotspot within NSW to complete a two-week self-quarantine upon entering Queensland unless it was for essential travel.
The hotspots include Blacktown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Central Coast, Cumberland, Inner West, Ku-ring-gai, Northern Beaches, Randwick, Ryde, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra local government areas.
“Hotspots are declared to stop people who have travelled to high-risk areas entering Queensland without first completing a 14 day self-quarantine,” Dr Young stated on the Queensland Health website.
“Anyone who has travelled to or lived in one of the declared hotspots must self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering Queensland, unless the travel is for essential purposes.”
The orders began on April 11 and will apply until the end of the public health emergency unless they are revoked or replaced.
Cumberland, Kur-ing-gai, Northern Beaches and Randwick local government areas have all had one or two cases of coronavirus within the past seven days.
Woollahra’s most recent case was diagnosed on April 29, while Canterbury-Bankstown, Blacktown, Inner West and Sydney have reported no new cases in almost a fortnight.
Waverley has not had a new case of coronavirus since April 22, while Central Coast has had no new cases since April 19.
Sutherland Shire and Ryde have had no new cases since April 14
Even Queensland residents, border community residents and exempt people must self-quarantine for 14 days if they have been in a declared hotspot – unless they were in the hotspot for an essential purposes such as a funeral.
“If you are a Queensland resident returning from any other place in Australia that is not a declared COVID-19 hotspot you do not have to self-quarantine,” the QLD Health website stated.
Residents may also re-enter Queensland for essential purposes such as work.
Exempt people include national and state security staff, essential health and emergency services workers, and other out-of-state residents providing essential services to Queensland including transport, infrastructure maintenance, construction, agribusiness, and public servants.
Anyone moving to Queensland to live will have to self-quarantine for 14 days, which could be at their new address.
Travellers transferring to other flights may enter Queensland but cannot leave the airport or alternatively self-quarantine until their next departure.
Even people travelling from the “declared hotspots” for essential purposes will be required to complete a 14-day self-quarantine if they are travelling to a “designated area”, including Fraser Island or K’gari, Moreton Island or Moorgumpin, and North Stradbroke Island or Minjerribah.
