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Health by Luke Mortimer, Andrew Potts and Kyle Wisniewski 22nd Dec 2020 7:37 AM
Premium Content MAYOR Tom Tate has pleaded with Gold Coast residents and visitors to do the right thing as maskless Christmas crowds pack in shoulder-to-shoulder at bustling city shopping centres. He has warned social distancing and other COVID-19 prevention measures are crucial to avoid tougher restrictions being imposed, and the potential spread of the virus. Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate speaking to the media. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Steve Holland The State Government has already closed the border to almost five million Greater Sydney residents in response to an outbreak in the metropolis, which reached 83 cases on Monday.
Queensland health authorities are on high alert after a mutant, super-spreading strain of COVID-19 was found in Australia. A woman, whose husband was forced into home quarantine after being identified as a close contact of the COVID-infected person who attended The Glen Hotel last Wednesday, told The Courier-Mail that a Queensland Health contact tracer had sounded the alarm over the new UK strain, which is feared to be 70 per cent more contagious.
Queenslanders urged to get tested for COVID-19 as border shuts to NSW: Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young is urging people to get tested for COVID-19 as the state is set to reimpose a hard border with New South Wales.
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a hard border closure to Greater Sydney, with barricades erected from 6am tomorrow. As NSW grapples with an ever-growing coronavirus crisis, Queensland has recorded one new case, a quarantined traveller returned from overseas, and now has 10 active cases. This is really important everyone, we want everyone to do the right thing, so people will be turned around, Ms Palaszczuk said. She said people had already been turned around at the border. Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young also urged anyone who was in the Glen Hotel at Brisbane s Eight Mile Plains on December 16 to come forward, after a case linked to the Avalon cluster on Sydney s Northern Beaches visited there.
Queensland to roll out unified tracing platform after ban on paper check-ins
Queensland to roll out unified tracing platform after ban on paper check-ins
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Queensland s Health Minister Yvette D Ath says a new public health direction will mandate the use of electronic check-in processes at businesses this week, in the latest deadline for businesses as the state s hard southern border is again established for travellers from Greater Sydney.
As queues formed at fever clinics and border stops amid the growing cluster in Sydney, Ms D Ath confirmed the government would also set up its own platform for tracking patrons after efforts were frustrated by illegible paper logs.