The Ministry of Health is not recommending any changes to the trans-Tasman travel bubble at this stage, as the risk to public health is regarded as low.
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Subscriber only Queensland Health has issued urgent health advice to anyone who has been to a declared NSW exposure site and is currently in Queensland - they must quarantine at home immediately. For those who have returned from NSW, but have not been to a listed exposure site, should get tested if they develop any symptoms. Chief health officer Jeannette Young said it was crucial that anyone who had been to the exposure sites undertook quarantine at home. NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not getting on flights, she said.
Genomic sequencing of the COVID-19 strain has matched it to a returned traveller from the United States who entered hotel quarantine in Sydney on April 26, however the link between the pair and the traveller has not been established raising concerns there is one or more cases moving undetected in the community.
Meanwhile, Queensland now requires anyone entering the state from NSW who has visited any of a growing list of Sydney exposure sites to to go into hotel quarantine.
Anyone already in Queensland who has been to one of the venues of concern is advised to isolate in their home and get tested.
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