Qld Covid: St George residents urged to check exposure sites after truckie tests positive

Residents of the western Queensland town have been urged to check potential exposure sites after a truck driver that stayed overnight in the town tested positive to Covid.

Southwest Queensland is on high alert after a Covid-positive truck driver stayed the night in St George.

The state recorded two new community cases linked to the New South Wales outbreak with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirming two truck drivers, who live on the Sunshine Coast and in the Somerset region, testing positive to Covid after returning to NSW.

Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said exposure sites visited by the truck drivers would be released by Queensland Health and urged people to check them as soon as they went live.

Dr Young said the truck drivers acquired the virus in the community.

“I think the risk is very low,” Dr Young said.

“One stayed overnight in St George so we will be putting up a number of exposure sites.”

The two truck drivers are among six new Covid cases in Queensland, which includes one acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine, and three on a marine vessel.

Ms Palaszczuk said the cases linked to the truck drivers were under investigation.