Meanwhile, two people have copped hefty fines after they left lockdown in the south-east corner and travelled to Mackay to attend a party. Young hopes the risk is low because the woman returned a negative test before she escaped from the hotel by forcing open a glass door. She was caught at Caboolture, north of Brisbane on Saturday, after a tip-off from the public. Officers say she had been in a Covid hotspot in NSW before she illegally entered Queensland. Meanwhile, police have caught a woman who escaped from a quarantine hotel on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. “If you turn up at the border without the proper exemptions you will end up in hotel quarantine,” she told would-be travellers from NSW and Victoria. The health minister, Yvette D’Ath, expressed her disgust after two paramedics were forced into isolation after coming into contact with an unauthorised arrival from NSW. Health minister Steven Miles and chief health officer Jeannette Young leaving a press conference on Friday. With case numbers in NSW hitting a record of 319 on Saturday, Queensland police have repeated warnings that anyone crossing the border will face intense scrutiny. “It is absolutely critical that no one from any of those households goes out into the community.” “This is going to be a lengthy time for some of those people, because as each person in the household becomes positive, quarantine then extends for another 14 days from that point,” Young said on Saturday. Some families face extended periods in isolation as the virus jumps from one member to the next, resetting the two-week quarantine clock each time. Young has warned others will emerge among the more than 10,000 people currently in home quarantine. There are now 102 cases linked to the so-called Indooroopilly cluster. Three are linked to a karate club that trains at Indooroopilly state high school, and four are household contacts linked to cases at the high school.įive others are household contacts linked to Ironside state school, and one is a close contact associated with Brisbane Boys Grammar school. Queensland recorded 13 new locally acquired cases on Saturday, all associated with the schools at Indooroopilly, Spring Hill and St Lucia on the northern side of the Brisbane River. While cases have continued to grow, all new infections have been linked to the Indooroopilly cluster, and most if not all new cases have been isolating while infectious. That’s looking increasingly likely if Sunday’s results mirror those of the past few days. The chief health officer, Jeannette Young, will review Sunday’s case numbers before deciding if she can safely lift the region’s eight-day lockdown as planned at 4pm. Queenslanders have been warned to expect more Covid-19 cases as residents in the south-east wait to hear if their lockdown will end. Here is a full wrap on the situation in Queensland from AAP: No positive cases were recorded in any other Australian jurisdiction.A public housing tower that was locked down during Victoria’s second wave has again been subject to a Covid-19 outbreak, after a family of eight linked to Al-Taqwa College tested positive.Residents will now be subject to the same restrictions as those in greater Sydney. Tougher Covid-19 restrictions will be in place for the next week in Armidale after several positive cases were recorded in the NSW local government area.Queensland recorded 13 new cases, at least 12 of which were in isolation for their entire infectious period, but health authorities will wait until Sunday before determining if lockdown can lift as planned.Victoria recorded 29 new cases – all linked to existing cases – but the source of the outbreak which has sparked its sixth lockdown remains unknown.There were five more deaths, meaning 27 people have now died in this outbreak. New South Wales reported 319 cases, the highest daily total ever recorded in the state.Here’s a recap of the day’s main stories: 09.46 BST What we learned today, Saturday 7 August
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