Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk attacked the federal Government over its Covid vaccine advice during an extraordinary press conference on Wednesday.
Queensland announced three new cases on the first day of its snap three-day lockdown affecting 3.5million people but the focus of the update quickly turned to the Morrison government s new recommendations for AstraZeneca and people under the age of 40. There has been no national cabinet decision about providing AstraZeneca to the under 40s, the Premier said. My message to Queenslanders today is please listen to Dr Young and listen to the health experts when it comes to the vaccine.
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The risk is real and we need to act quickly, the premier said. We need to go hard and we need to go fast.
The other positive locally acquired case is a miner from Ipswich, one of the 170 FIFO workers from the NT gold mine, where a positive case was detected after hundreds of workers had dispersed across Australia.
Hospital clerical worker tests positive
The woman who tested positive overnight is a 19-year-old casual clerical worker from Prince Charles Hospital in Chermside, in Brisbane s north
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Working as a receptionist outside the hospital s COVID ward, health authorities have confirmed she tested positive for the Delta strain variant of the disease.