‘Excellent news’: Queensland records just two new cases on Sunday
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Authorities remain confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters are “under control”, as the state recorded two new cases on Sunday, one of them from community transmission.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the locally acquired case was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster, while the second was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”
NSW has recorded 16 new locally acquired Covid-19 infections in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday.
Medical officers walk past a sign board of Covid-19 testing center on Bondi Beach in Sydney on May 6, 2021.
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Of those, 13 were in isolation while infectious.
More than 45,000 tests were completed in the reporting period.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the next few days were absolutely critical . Whilst the numbers overnight are very encouraging compared to the previous day, we know that they still have a potential to bounce around, and we still know that the next few days are absolutely critical, Berejiklian said.
Portuguese restaurant cluster grows with new case
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Early on Sunday, authorities were confident Queensland’s COVID-19 clusters were “under control”, but later, another person tested positive, taking the day’s tally to three cases – two locally acquired.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said of the first two cases that one was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster while the other was in hotel quarantine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has urged anyone with symptoms to get tested.
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“This is excellent news,” she said. “We are dealing with this Alpha strain, not the Delta strain, and it appears that everything is under control at this point in time.”
‘Huge relief’: Lockdown may be the last, as contact tracers tie up loose cases
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Queensland has avoided any further extension to the snap lockdown of parts of the state, despite a handful of new cases on Saturday, with contact tracers urgently working to find the final links that will tie all the cases together.
Eight new cases were announced on Saturday, five of them from community transmission.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says whether this lockdown is Queensland’s last depends on the vaccination rate.