The 23-year-old woman who brought the Delta strain of coronavirus from Melbourne to Queensland s Sunshine Coast broke lockdown protocols when she gave in to peer pressure to go out with friends, it has been revealed.
The Mareeba woman, who flew to Melbourne to visit friends before travelling back to the Sunshine Coast, was deemed a close contact after visiting a high-risk exposure site in the Victorian capital on July 13.
The double-vaccinated medical student received the message from the state s health department on July 15 and was tested but did not wait for her result.
Instead she agreed to go out with friends on the Sunshine Coast after initially returning a negative result.
Locals from a Far North Queensland town have vented their outrage after a Covid-infected woman flew home from a identified hot spot in Melbourne.
The woman, a student aged in her 20s, boarded a flight to the Sunshine Coast from Melbourne on July 13 and then received a text message from Victoria Health two days later.
She was informed she had attended a ‘Tier one’ exposure site at the Young and Jackson Pub in Melbourne s CBD on July 10.
But instead of self isolating in the Sunshine State after she was tested for Covid, she chose to catch up with friends, go shopping and visited popular restaurant Rice Boi in Mooloolaba twice in one day, Queensland Health officials confirmed.