Australia s urgent demand for rapid antigen tests has seen 38-year-old entrepreneur Austyn Campbell s Motion One sign a $26million contract to supply test kits to the government..
Delta is on our doorstep : Annastacia Palaszczuk urges Queenslanders to get vaccinated dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Queensland s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they really needed to open their front door or go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.
Queensland recorded 16 new local Covid cases on Wednesday including a mystery case in Cairns that has a different, unknown source to the main outbreak in Brisbane 1,600km away.
The Delta strain outbreak that began last week now has 100 cases in the state, more than at any time since Australia s first Covid wave early last year.
Outrage over cancelled hotel bookings because of the arrival of NRL teams in Queensland is growing after it was revealed a foster parents conference had been told to make way for star players.
Queensland Foster and Kinship Care, a child protection charity that provides foster homes for children who have experienced harm, was told that the conference it had organised at Twin Waters Novotel Resort on the Sunshine Coast, would need to be cancelled because the NRL had now booked the resort.
It s the same resort that kicked a bride-to-be and her family out of their rooms to make way for NRL players.
Bride is THROWN OUT of QLD hotel to make way for pampered NRL teams escaping coronavirus lockdown dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.