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Subscriber only Queensland is on track to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on Friday after one new case was recorded in hotel quarantine. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed a woman had tested positive in hotel quarantine after flying in from Brazil. Ms Palaszczuk said restrictions currently implemented across Greater Brisbane, including mandatory wearing of masks and patron limits, were set to be lifted after no new community cases. If we continue on this track it s more than likely all of those restrictions will be removed, she said. In the past 24 hours 5173 COVID-19 tests were undertaken. The state has not had a case of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the community since January 7.
The Premier has confirmed three new COVID-19 cases overnight but could face tough questions over the handling of two people in hotel quarantine who were able to leave before testing positive.
The Premier has confirmed three new COVID-19 cases overnight but could face tough questions over the handling of two people in hotel quarantine who were able to leave before testing positive.
Queensland Quarantine Hotel Shut as Cluster Grows
The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation.
All 129 people staying at the hotel are being moved to another hotel and tested before restarting their 14-day quarantine.
“Have a look what’s happening in the UK, what’s happening in Ireland, I mean, this, if it if it gets out of control it can have devastating consequences,” the premier told reporters.
News by Nathan Vass, Zoe Smith, Maria Bervanakis, David Aidone 13th Jan 2021 8:39 AM
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Subscriber only Herd immunity against COVID cannot be achieved in Australia with the lower-Âefficacy Oxford-AstraZeneca Âvaccine, which the Morrison government plans to administer to millions of Australians, according to leading doctors. Medics and infectious disease experts are calling for Australia to invest in more high-efficacy vaccines, rather than relying on the ÂAstraZeneca jab. Australia has ordered 53.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines which has been shown in trials to have a much lower level of efficacy than Pfizer and Moderna vaccines being injected in Britain, France, Israel and the US,