Sunshine Coast Covid-19 case emerges as worker tests positive

Two people who have tested positive to Covid-19 twice visited a Sunshine Coast McDonald’s restaurant while they were infectious.

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Update 3.30pm: The full updated list of close contact locations where two Queenslanders who tested positive for Covid-19 visited has been released.

Sunshine Coast residents who have visited the below close contact locations are being urged to get tested and quarantine immediately until contacted by Queensland Health.

A Sunshine Coast worker who tested positive has told the government they visited the below locations on the Coast during while infectious.

• McDonald’s Glass House Mountains at Coochin Creek near the Bruce Highway between 5.45am and 6am on Tuesday, June 22
• McDonald’s Glass House Mountains, Coochin Creek near the Bruce Highway between 6am and 6.15am on Wednesday, June 23.
  

People are being encouraged to get tested for Covid-19. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Other locations across the state that have been since added to the list include:

Tuesday, June 22

• Good Life Gym Fortitude Valley between 7.30am and 9.45am
• Miracle Worker massage and Holistic Therapies in West End between 9.30am and 5pm
• Anytime fitness Hamilton between 4.15pm and 5.15pm
• Coles Indooroopilly Shopping Centre between 6pm and 6.45pm

Wednesday, June 23

• Miracle Worker massage and Holistic Therapies in West End between 10am and 5pm
• Anytime fitness Hamilton between 4.30pm and 5.30pm
• Goodlife Health Clubs West End between 5.15pm and 7.15pm

Thursday, June 24

• Ampol Petrol Station, 132a East-West Arterial Road, Hendra between 7am and 7.25am
• Zarraffas Coffee Hendra between 7am and 7.25am
• Hendra Post office between 7.10am and 7.30am
• Miracle Worker massage and Holistic Therapies in West End between 12.15pm and 5.30pm
• Guzman and Gomez Shop 1/18 Stamford Road, Indooroopilly between 7.45pm and 8pm

Friday, June 25

• Chez Nous Cafe, 160 Roma Street, Brisbane City between 8.15am and 8.30am
• Market Organics, 10/620 Moggill Road, Chapel Hill between 9.10am and 9.45am
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Indooroopilly shopping Centre between 9.55am and 10.25am
• JB HIFI, Indooroopilly Shopping Centre between 10.10am and 10.25am
• Unhas Chic Salon, 8/204 Alice Street, Brisbane City between 12.30pm and 2.30pm
• Woolworths Metro Teneriffe between 1pm and 1.5pm
• Woolworths Gasworks, 76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead between 2.55pm and 3.10pm.

People in cars queue for Covid-19 testing. Picture: Steve Pohlner

The government is also urging anyone who visited the below locations, which have been deemed as casual contacts, get tested and quarantine until contacted by QLD Health.

• Good Life Gym Fortitude Valley between 9.45am and 12.30pm on Tuesday, June 22
• Goodlife Health Clubs West End between 7.15pm and 11.59pm on Wednesday, June 23
• Emporium, Ann Street in Fortitude Valley between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Thursday, June 24
• So Sushi at Emporium on Ann Street, Fortitude Valley between 3.45pm and 4.30pm on Thursday, June 24
• Indooroopilly Shopping Centre between 9.45am and 10.30am on Friday, June 25

Anyone who visited the below locations, which have been deemed as low risk contacts, are being urged to monitor for symptoms.

• Escape 2 Hiking Shop at DFO at Brisbane Airport between 10am and 6pm on Saturday, June 19
• Charlie’s Raw Squeeze, 730 Sandgate Road, Clayfield between 9am and 9.30am on Sunday, June 20
• Escape 2 Hiking Shop at DFO at Brisbane Airport between 10am and 3pm on Sunday, June 20
  
• Royal Brisbane and Woman’s Hospital Fever Clinic in Herston between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Sunday, June 20
• Indooroopilly Shopping Centre between 6pm and 6.45pm on Tuesday, June 22
• Royal Brisbane and Woman’s Hospital Fever Clinic in Herston between 4pm and 5pm on Friday, June 25

EARLIER: A Sunshine Coast worker is one of two people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the community in Queensland overnight.

Queensland has recorded three new cases of Covid-19, including two cases of community transmission, in the past 24 hours.

Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said the person who worked on the Sunshine Coast was the partner of a woman who worked at DFO at Brisbane Airport.

She said health officials didn’t believe the DFO worker contracted the virus while at work because they were known to friends of some of the people who attended the Portuguese restaurant linked to other Covid positive tests.

Dr Young said the worker had no symptoms and was tested because of the positive case at DFO.

Queensland's Chief Health office Dr Jeannette Young address the media in relation to the current COVID-19 situation. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sarah Marshall

She said the person had been to many venues in Queensland, including gyms and shopping centres.

The worker’s partner, who works at the Sunshine Coast, has also tested positive after developing symptoms on June 23.

Dr Young said she understood that person had also been in the community while infectious since June 21.

Authorities are yet to announce a list of locations for where the two new cases visited during their infectious period.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand Government has suspended all travel to Australia amid growing concerns about the Covid clusters.

It means Air New Zealand’s first flight from Auckland to land on Sunshine Coast Airport’s new runway, scheduled for Monday, 28 June, has been cancelled.

Sunshine Coast Airport spokeswoman Ayllie White said it was to be the first commercial international flight to land on the $334 million runway.

“This is very disappointing for the airport, the airline and our passengers,” Ms White said.

“At this stage, it is planned to operate the scheduled service on Wednesday 30 June, subject to quarantine free travel recommencing.”

Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk said the new cases were not the Delta variant, which is responsible for the outbreak that has sent Sydney into a two week lockdown.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk provides a Covid-19 update on Sunday morning. Picture:

New restrictions are also set to be introduced across Queensland after the Sydney cluster expanded.

Pubs, clubs and cafes will revert to the one person per two square metres rule, while private gatherings at homes will be limited to no more than 100 people, including children and infants.

The restrictions will last as long as the Sydney lockdown is in place.

There are currently 40 active cases in Queensland.

Air New Zealand has cancelled its first flight from Auckland to Sunshine Coast Airport’s new runway.

Ms Palaszczuk said no one should travel to NSW during school holidays, and anyone currently in the state should rethink their plans.

More information to come.

Originally published as Sunshine Coast Covid-19 case emerges as worker tests positive