An urgent health alert has been issued for millions of Australians to get tested for Covid-19 if they experience even mild symptoms after fragments of the deadly disease were detected at two wastewater treatment plants.
Queensland Health announced on Thursday sampling of sewage at Luggage Point, servicing huge swathes of Brisbane, and Victoria Point, servicing the area around Redland Bay, returned positive readings for Covid-19.
The state is on high alert following concerns highly-infectious strains of coronavirus could potentiality be spreading around Queensland.
Residents in Brisbane (pictured) are being urged to get tested after fragments of Covid-19 were detected at two wastewater treatment plants
21:07 EDT, 24 February 2021
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Justin Szabolics (pictured) is accused of being part of Olympic swimmer Scott Miller s alleged $2.2million drug syndicate
A third member of swimming great Scott Miller s alleged $2.2million drug syndicate has been charged with supplying four kilograms of crystal meth.
Justin Szabolics was one of two men who allegedly picked up the drugs from Miller after the Olympic silver medallist drove the consignment from Sydney halfway to the Victorian border.
Szabolics, from Albury-Wodonga, has been charged with participating in a criminal group and supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug.
The 44-year-old, who was already in Junee prison accused of unrelated offences, appeared before Albury Local Court on Wednesday.
The boss of an Australian contractor at the centre a Covid vaccine overdose bungle at a nursing home has stood down.
A 94-year-old woman and an 88-year-old man were given too much of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday, the second day of Australia s vaccination rollout, at Holy Spirit aged care home at Carseldine, Queensland.
Healthcare Australia, a company contracted by the federal government to give vaccines in aged care homes, was put on notice after an investigation found the doctor who administered the jab had not completed immunisation training.
The doctor has since been stood down from the vaccination program, and on Thursday afternoon was joined by Haelthcare Australia chief executive Jason Cartwrigth.
A GP who gave two Brisbane care home patients four times the recommended dose of the Covid-19 vaccine had not been trained in how to administer the jab.