Gladstone ruled out of quarantine contention ahead of outbreak report release
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The Prime Minister has ruled the Gladstone region out as a potential quarantine centre for overseas arrivals, as the Queensland government prepares to release a report into last monthâs Brisbane hotel outbreak.
Earlier this week, the state sent a formal pitch to the federal government that included two options to quarantine overseas arrivals at a mining camp at Calliope, near Gladstone, or to build a new facility near Toowoomba.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Gladstone last month.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected the Gladstone proposal on Thursday.
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Greater Brisbane restrictions to ease after no community cases of COVID-19
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Masks will no longer be mandatory in Brisbane, dancing will be back and people can have more visitors to their homes as restrictions are lifted from Friday.
It comes after Queensland recorded no new local coronavirus cases for the 10th day in the row.
There were 7410 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, above the daily goal of 5000 tests.
There are 23 active cases of COVID-19 in Queensland.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk congratulated Queenslanders while announcing the mandatory mask mandate had ended.
Outbreak of UK coronavirus variant could see WA go hard and fast into lockdown, top health authority says
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Dr Robyn Lawrence says the state has the systems in place to cope with a potential second wave.
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Western Australia would use lockdowns as the second line of defence if the highly transmissible UK COVID strain got into the state, after contact tracing, the state s health incident controller says.
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They say hotel quarantine failures elsewhere risk being repeated in WA
But health authorities say WA is well prepared for a second wave