COVID-19 update: Queensland records one new case as exposure sites grow
Queensland has recorded one new local case from overnight testing as the list of exposure venues expanded overnight to two major shopping centres. Join Sky News live as we bring you the press conference.
David WuDigital Reporter
July 6, 2021 - 10:30AM
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced there was one new local case overnight with five cases in overseas hotel quarantine.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the good news in her daily press conference and urged people to continue come out for testing and to get vaccinated.
The new case is a woman who is close contact of a gentleman from Cinnamon Park who travelled to Eumundi.
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‘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.”
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.”