Brisbane residents will have access to urgent COVID-19 testing even when asymptomatic as fears grow over a cluster in the city. Queensland has confirmed 10 cases of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain, four locally acquired, plunging Greater Brisbane into a snap three-day lockdown. Federal...
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Four new COVID cases in Qld
Queensland has recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to Monday morning. While six are overseas acquired cases, four were the result of community transmission. The worrying development has triggered a snap three-day lockdown for Greater Brisbane from 5pm on Monday. Chief...
NSW identifies QLD close contacts
NSW Health has identified close contacts related to Queensland’s COVID-19 outbreak as it gets in touch with more than 20,000 returned travellers. NSW Health says it is in the process of contacting more than 20,000 people who have recently returned from Queensland as that state’s...
NSW identifies nine QLD close contacts
NSW Health says it is in the process of contacting more than 20,000 people who have recently returned from Queensland as that state’s latest coronavirus outbreak evolves. The travellers who returned on flights between March 20 and 26 are being contacted via email and SMS...
Vow to find man missing off Qld beach
A friend of the 21-year-old man missing off a Queensland beach has vowed that efforts to locate him will continue until he is found. A search and rescue mission is underway to find a young man who went missing in waters off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast....
House party violates Qld isolation orders triggering major contact tracing effort
A major contact tracing effort is underway after a new COVID-19 case was detected in Queensland. The infected person is a friend of a man who tested positive with the UK strain on Thursday. He violated isolation orders by hosting a gathering of around 25...
Why Qld hasn’t gone into lockdown
Unlike the previous COVID-19 outbreak, Queensland has not gone into lockdown this time. That’s because of one important difference. Southeast Queenslanders who feared another lockdown breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday. State government officials called a press conference to announce they had found...
Why Qld hasn’t gone into lockdown this time
Southeast Queenslanders who feared another lockdown breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday. State government officials called a press conference to announce they had found a likely transmission link that is key to tracing a new outbreak of the British variant of COVID-19. That...
Urgent virus alert for Westfields after Qld COVID-19 case
Queensland’s new coronavirus case – who visited a dozen Brisbane venues while infectious – has been confirmed to have the highly contagious UK strain and has been linked to a previous cluster. The state’s health department on Friday night said genomic testing had confirmed that...
Covid-19: WA tightens travel restrictions after QLD outbreak, throwing Easter plans into chaos
Millions of Australians’ Easter plans have been thrown into chaos as Western Australia tightens travel restrictions following Queensland‘s coronavirus outbreak. A second man, who is a close contact of the existing Queensland coronavirus cases, was reported in Brisbane on Saturday. WA Premier Mark McGowan has...