Crucial days: Big testing push after infected air hostess travelled on Bay flights

Residents have flocked to supermarkets but it’s the region’s fever clinics most in need of traffic as health chiefs urge anyone who may be linked to two Bay flights.

Hervey Bay fever clinic – located at St Stephens Hospital in Urraween – at 3pm on July 23.

Fraser Coast residents flocked to supermarkets on Friday but it’s the region’s fever clinics most in need of traffic.

It comes after a flight attendant, who was recently on a service to Hervey Bay, tested positive to COVID-19.

The Banyo woman, aged in her 30s, travelled on six separate flights between Brisbane, Longreach, Gladstone and Hervey Bay.

Executive Director of Medical Services and Wide Bay COVID-19 Incident Controller Professor Scott Kitchener on Friday urged anyone who was on either of the flights to get tested.

“At this stage, there are no identified confirmed cases … we are obviously testing … the more people that come forward and get tested, the quicker we identify anybody who has happened to become infected,” Mr Kitchener said.

The flight attendant was on a flight from Brisbane to Hervey Bay, then from Hervey Bay to Brisbane, on July 12.

She was also in the Hervey Bay terminal.

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The Covid-positive woman has since stayed in Brisbane from July 13 and contact tracers had not released an further Fraser Coast locations of concern on Friday night.

The codes were Qantas flight 2374 and Qantas flight 2375.

The Covid-positive woman is a QANTAS flight attendant.

Fraser Coast mayor George Seymour, who was on one of the flights, has since returned a negative Covid test.

In a statement, Cr Seymour said locals need to “ensure they are listening to and following the advice of Queensland Health” in the wake of the announcement.

Panic buying had already started after a Covid scare on the Fraser Coast. Toilet paper was flying off the shelves at Maryborough's Woolworths store.

“Anyone who was on one of these two flights is being urged to get tested and self isolate until the test result comes back.

“Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms at any time should get tested, and now more so than ever.”

Executive Director of Medical Services and Wide Bay COVID-19 Incident Controller Professor Scott Kitchener

Originally published as Crucial days: Big testing push after infected air hostess travelled on Bay flights