“Unfortunately we have had to delay some surgery and some outpatient work.”
Many health workers have been forced into isolation as parents or close contacts of students at Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane Girls Grammar and Ironside state school.
Venues at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital, the Princess Alexandra hospital and the University of Queensland have been listed as high-risk exposure sites.
Young said she was still concerned about the missing cases linking infections in two returned overseas travellers to an Indooroopilly state high school student and her family. “We don’t know how this outbreak has happened.”
Nine of the new Covid cases are school students, Queensland’s health minister, Yvette D’Ath, said.
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Share on Facebook So wherever you are in those 11 LGAs, if you can at all, just stay put so that that virus then doesn t move, because we know that there are people out there who could have been infected, who have no symptoms. So the best way to deal with someone who has no symptoms is that they just stay at home. That s why lockdowns work, because we know that the virus can burn out. So please just stay at home.
Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said 70 infringement notices were issued and 21 people were arrested overnight.
He said police will move to install RBT-style roadblocks to enforce the hard lockdown.
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