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Subscriber only BUNDABERG residents have heeded the advice of health officials by getting covid tested, even during the holiday period. It comes after Queensland Health revealed on Christmas Eve fragments of Covid-19 had been detected in local wastewater. In the two weeks between December 14 and 27, almost 400 covid tests have been done in Bundaberg. The testing period includes when New South Wales saw a cluster of cases and when the sewerage traces were found. December 21 was the busiest day in the last fortnight with 78 tests being done, followed by 56 tests on December 22. But Christmas didn t stop locals getting tested with 12 tests conducted on Christmas Eve with 25 on Christmas Day.
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Tens of thousands of people across the Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service area have heeded the calls of health officials by getting testing for Covid-19 since the virus reached the country.
As of December 23, 35,861 tests have been done at both private and public testing sites across the Wide Bay to date.
On Christmas Eve residents around Bundaberg, Bargara, Burnett Heads and Mon Repos were urged to get tested if they were experiencing covid symptoms followings positive traces of the virus being detected in wastewater.
Earlier this week Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young commended the state’s response to getting tested after a cluster broke out in New South Wales.
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Subscriber only FROM the region s drug kingpins being sentenced to jail time to a man fined $40,000 for illegal land clearing, there have been some big cases before court on the Fraser Coast this year. Here are just a few of the court cases covered by the Chronicle.
Doctor found guilty of raping patient during pap smear A QUEENSLAND doctor digitally raped a 23-year-old patient during a pap smear and tried to kiss her while she lay on the examination table, a jury has found. Olajide Olusesan Ogunseye, 53, of Urraween, has been on trial for the past six days in the Brisbane District Court after he pleaded not guilty to a single charge of rape.
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Subscriber only THE money raised to support the family of a Fraser Coast crash victim while they kept a vigil by her hospital bed in Brisbane will be used to give her the send-off she deserves. Burrum River s Sharlene Urosevic died three weeks after a crash at Iveragh on November 21 left her in a critical condition. She was seriously injured in the crash a day after celebrating her graduation from Riverside Christian College at the school s formal. A Go Fund Me page was started to help support her family, who travelled to be with her at the Brisbane hospital where she received treatment in the aftermath of the crash.
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THE Fraser Coast Regional Council has given preliminary approval for a major residential development in Hervey Bay after recommendations of a park and larger land allotments were included in a new plan.
The recommendations for the changes were made at council meeting in August.
The site, at Beach Rd in Urraween, is being developed by the Hervey Bay RSL and will include 50 residential lots, reduced from 57 which was part of the original plan, and a park.
The changes came after council officers met with the developers to discuss the application for the site.
The council considered the original proposal earlier this year that allowed for 57 lots and asked that changes be made to allow for additional green space and improved amenity by way a lot size.