New South Wales record 22 local cases, South Australia records first case in over 200 days Wed, 30 Jun 2021, 1:18PM
Locally acquired Covid-19 case set to be recorded in SA after 211 days without community transmission. Photo / News Corp Australia
New South Wales record 22 local cases, South Australia records first case in over 200 days Wed, 30 Jun 2021, 1:18PM
South Australia has recorded its first locally acquired Covid-19 case after more than 200 days of not having any community transmission.
SA confirmed that five people, including the miner that flew into Alice Springs from the NT gold mine, have tested positive to Covid-19.
Premier Steven Marshall started the press conference by reassuring South Australian residents that a lockdown wasn t being introduced.
New plane flights, shopping centres and bars are among Queensland s latest coronavirus exposure sites as the list continues to grow.
The wide-ranging lockdown includes South East Queensland, Townsville city, Palm Island and Magnetic Island, given the 19-year-old hospital worker flew around the state during 10 days while she was infectious.
Three new community cases were reported in the Sunshine State today.
Dr Maria Boulton from the Queensland AMA urged people to be vigilant about possible exposure.
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A casual receptionist who worked next to the COVID-19 ward at a Brisbane hospital and holidayed at Magnetic Island has tested positive to the virus, triggering a three-day lockdown of 4.5 million people in south-east and north Queensland.
Queensland Health authorities on Tuesday scrambled to track down potential contacts of the woman and her family at a long list of exposure sites in Brisbane and Townsville, amid fears the case could mark the first spread of the virus in regional Queensland.
The whole of Magnetic Island, off the coast of Townsville, along with the north Queensland city’s airport and city market, have been added to the state’s growing exposure site list.
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Isaac Greener and his family were desperate for their Queensland holiday. From Sherbrooke, on the edge of Melbourne, they lost power for more than a week earlier this month in the wild weather that lashed the Dandenongs.
They landed on Magnetic Island on Friday only to be amongst holidaying Victorians plunged into lockdown on Tuesday night.
Isaac Greener and his family are in lockdown on Magnetic Island
“We had this holiday booked for a long time, and we changed it multiple times to get here,” Mr Greener said.
Victorian authorities added South-East Queensland and Western Australia’s Perth and Peel regions to its list of “red zones” at 1am on Wednesday.
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