Queensland Health Minister Yvette D Ath said she makes no apologies for mandating the COVID-19 jab for health workers amid a looming deadline for staff to be vaccinated.
Covid-positive Uber driver Duran Raman was allegedly found in a hallway at Gold Coast University Hospital on Monday, after the 36-year-old left his isolation room on Sunday night.
The unvaccinated man in his 30s who had been the centre of Queensland’s COVID scare could potentially be admitted to intensive care at the Gold Coast University Hospital.
The man is struggling to breathe and can barely speak with authorities yet to interview the man to determine where he had been over the past 10 days while out in the community and not using QR check-ins.
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young believes it is unlikely the man left his Broadbeach home where he lives alone due to the condition of his health from the virus.
Queensland has recorded no new cases even as a truck driver with one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine has tested positive in Victoria but was infectious in the sunshine state from October 18 to 19.
The new cases are a wake-up call to Queenslanders ahead of another super Pfizer Saturday with 100 schools across the state to be turned into a vaccination clinic in an effort to boost vaccination rates.
The condition of the Covid-infected Uber driver who sent Queensland into a panic about a new lockdown has deteriorated in the past 24 hours, Queensland s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young revealed.