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Queensland Chief Health Officer (CHO) Jeannette Young has warned unvaccinated grandparents not to go “anywhere near” their grandchildren as the CCP virus Delta variant spreads to four schools in the Australian state.
This comes as Queensland recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, all linked to a cluster at Indooroopilly High School in the state’s capital city, Brisbane.
One of the new cases was another student at Indooroopilly High School, two at Brisbane Grammar School, two at Brisbane Girl’s Grammar School, three at Iron Side State School, five household family members connected to the new cases, and one neighbour of one of the known cases.
Australian Health Official: ‘Don’t Go Anywhere Near Your Grandkids’ If Unvaccinated
3 Aug 2021
Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, told a press conference on Tuesday that unvaccinated elderly people should avoid contact with their grandchildren after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in four local schools.
“If you’re a grandparent of one of these kids, one of these households, and you haven’t been vaccinated, please don’t go anywhere near your grandkids,” Young said, alluding to the greater danger posed to older patients by the coronavirus.
The cluster was first detected at Brisbane’s Indooroopilly High School and has since spread to produce several cases at Iron Side State School, Brisbane Grammar School, and Brisbane Girl’s Grammar School.
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Queensland s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they really needed to open their front door or go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.
Queensland recorded 16 new local Covid cases on Wednesday including a mystery case in Cairns that has a different, unknown source to the main outbreak in Brisbane 1,600km away.
The Delta strain outbreak that began last week now has 100 cases in the state, more than at any time since Australia s first Covid wave early last year.