Health alert: Where confirmed covid case went Queensland Health has issued a public health alert for people who need to act or monitor for symptoms.
Breaking 18th Dec 2020 12:08 PM After confirmation that a positive covid case from the Sydney cluster visited Queensland on Wednesday, Queensland Health has issued the following public health alert details.
The following people will be contacted by contact tracers, asked to come forward for testing immediately and quarantine for 14 days from Wednesday 16 December 2020: - Passengers from rows 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11 on Virgin flight VA925 on Wednesday 16 December 2020. - Close contacts from the restaurant at The Glen Hotel - 24 Gaskell St, Eight Mile Plains - on Wednesday 16 December 2020.
Positive case from Sydney s Northern Beaches outbreak flew to Queensland while infectious
Queensland s Premier has confirmed the state has recorded a new case of coronavirus overnight after a woman from NSW travelled to Queensland and tested positive this week.
Annastacia Palaszczuk said the woman had visited the Avalon RSL, in Sydney s Northern Beaches, before coming to Queensland and visiting locations in Brisbane s south and the Sunshine Coast. This woman connected with the Northern Beaches cluster, Ms Palaszczuk said. She did visit the Glenn Hotel (in Eight Mile Plains) and she did go to the Sunshine Coast.
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Dr Jeannette Young said the lady in her 50s travelled from the Northern Beaches on December 16 on Virgin flight VA925 arriving into Brisbane airport at 9.30am.(AP)
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Queenslanders have been urged to reconsider travel to Sydney, with health authorities saying more areas of the city could be declared hotspots if community transmission of COVID-19 is detected.
From 1am on Saturday, all travellers from Sydney’s northern beaches into Queensland will be required to spend 14 days in hotel quarantine on arrival.
A woman unknowingly infected with COVID-19 visited The Glen Hotel in Eight Mile Plains on December 16, 2020.
Public Health Alert – New COVID Cases
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the case associated with the Northern Beaches outbreak was infectious in South East Queensland for two days.
By 96five Friday 18 Dec 2020
18 December 2020
Queensland is recording three new cases of COVID-19 this morning, with one associated with the Sydney Northern Beaches outbreak.
The remaining two new cases today are overseas acquired and were detected in hotel quarantine.
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the case associated with the Northern Beaches outbreak was infectious in South East Queensland for two days.
“The woman in her 50s arrived in Brisbane on 16 December on flight VA925 and made her way to the Sunshine Coast,” she said.
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