Covid-19: Queensland border rules to ease on back of single new local case as NSW records 1542 new cases, nine deaths
Queensland will relax border restrictions after it recorded one new local Covid-19 case, while NSW has announced 1542 new cases and nine deaths.
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QUEENSLAND will relax border restrictions after it recorded one new local Covid-19 case, while New South Wales has announced 1542 new cases and nine deaths.
The new Queensland case involves a 13-year-old student from Brisbane, which has been under investigation.
The “border zone” will be reinstated on Monday, after the Tweed and 11 other regional areas in NSW are released from lockdown on Saturday.
However, the zone will only be for essential reasons, including work and school.
Additionally, anyone who crosses the border from either Queensland or NSW will need to have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said an essential worker was anyone who could not reasonably work from home. Workers will need to discuss the situation with employers.
She urged Queensland residents to get tested if they have any symptoms at all and to get fully vaccinated as soon as possible.
Dr Young said authorities would be reconsidering how to process freight and truck drivers due to the risk of the coronavirus Delta variant making its way into Queensland.
“There are a lot of truck drivers – thousands and thousands cross the border every day – and to hold them up would be difficult, but we are looking at it,” she said.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the new case – and one new “overseas” case on a vessel located offshore – at a press conference on Friday morning.
The new case, linked to Sir Thomas More School at Sunnybank, follows the Queensland government revealing an infected NSW truckie had spent two days in the southeast.
Ms Palaszcuk and government colleagues held the press conference about 45 minutes later than anticipated and the new cases involving the student had only just been received.
Queensland Health has also revealed late on Thursday night the truckie with the coronavirus spent two days infectious in southeast Queensland this week.
New contact tracing locations have been listed at Archerfield and Upper Mount Gravatt.
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