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Subscriber only Travellers entering Queensland who have been to declared West Australian sites visited by three new COVID cases will be required to quarantine for 14 days on arrival. Deputy Chief Health Officer Sonya Bennett said people already in Queensland who had visited more than a dozen WA sites at specified times between April 27-30 were also being asked to call 13 HEALTH to discuss their circumstances. You must … quarantine until you receive further instructions from Queensland Health, Dr Bennett said. The direction is in place to protect the health and safety of Queenslanders and travellers who come here.
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New exposure sites added as Qld check-in app becomes mandatory
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The Queensland’s COVID check-in app is now mandatory for all pubs, clubs, cafes and restaurants from Saturday as the state recorded no new COVID-19 cases.
However, a cafe and toilets at Brisbane International Airport have been identified as potential exposure sites linked to a COVID-positive passenger.
There were 28 active cases and 5692 COVID-19 tests had been completed in the past 24 hours.
On Saturday, Queensland Health identified the cafe and toilet, that one of two transiting passengers from a Papua New Guinea red flight who tested positive with COVID-19 was allowed to mingle in the green zone after a human error was made, have been identified as potential exposure sites.
Engineers will be called into the Princess Alexandra Hospital s Ward 5D to assess air circulation as a potential cause for two separate COVID-19 virus clusters. The investigation comes as Health Minister Yvette D Ath revealed a single area in the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital could be used to care for the majority of Queensland s COVID patients in the wake of the outbreaks. Suspicions into a possible common cause of both clusters are focused on an isolation room inside the PA Hospital s Ward 5D, where two so-called super-spreader patients were cared for at different times last month. The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, where a probe is underway into two separate COVID-19 clusters. Photo: Dan Peled.
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Subscriber only COVID-positive patients could be treated at the proposed Wellcamp quarantine hub instead of being taken to hospital if the much-talked about facility is given the go ahead. Deputy Premier Steven Miles launched another attack on the federal government, claiming the latest Brisbane lockdown could have been avoided if the quarantine hub was up and running. But the federal government has hit back, insisting they are still waiting on a formal proposal from the Queensland Government about the Wellcamp quarantine site. Deputy Premier Steven Miles. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jono Searle The state government has confirmed that treating COVID-19 patients on site at the proposed hub in Toowoomba remains an option - instead of them being ferried to hospital.