queensland announced a new community case of COVID-19, a woman who was contagious for 10 days, as a leading epidemiologist said the state has been ‘beautiful’ to avoid a major outbreak.
Deputy Premier Steve Miles said the new case, a woman from Fitzgibbon BrisbaneNorthward, who worked in a massage business, was contagious in the community since September 23.
Her infection is not linked to the earlier case. The woman in her 50s was double vaccinated and all members of her household have tested negative so far. It is understood that he experienced only mild symptoms of the virus.
Genome sequencing is awaited to determine how he contracted the virus.
‘At this stage, there is no close link that we have been able to identify. She has not been to any known risk sites,’ said Chief Health Officer Dr Janet Young.
Residents of Brisbane’s northern suburbs were urged to come forward for testing if they experience any COVID symptoms.
The requirement to wear a mask while sitting in the NRL Grand Final at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane was ignored by many in the crowd.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles, wearing a mask at the NRL Grand Finals on Monday, announced a new community case of COVID-19 in the state and whether Queensland hospitals will cope as state borders reopen.
Mr Miles dismissed reports of him failing to wear a mask as directed by several in the crowd at the NRL Grand Final.
He said he had attended a pop-up vaccination clinic at the game and had seen most people wearing masks in line with public health orders.
“By the time people got to their seats, compliance with wearing masks in and out of the stadium was very high,” Mr Miles said.
‘Obviously once people sat down and had beer and food, they took them off.’
‘They were largely wearing their masks when they were moving around and that’s when the risk is greatest,’
‘There were a lot of downsides in all of this but the way Brisbane and Suncorp hosted the games, there were a lot of good things to see yesterday.
Mr Miles said he thought compliance with wearing a mask at the NRL Grand Final was ‘too high’.
Mr Miles responded to claims by the Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association that state hospitals would be overwhelmed as borders reopen and cases of the delta variant rise.
‘Our hospitals face unpredictable demand all the time, but they cope better when they know what to expect, and better modeling how this will affect hospitals, the national agreed to open What is the plan because by the time they cope, there will be an impact,’ he said.
‘With hospitals in NSW and Victoria dramatically reducing non-urgent elective surgeries, we treat over 10,000 non-urgent elective surgery patients in our hospitals every month.
‘These are tens of thousands of Queenslanders who were treated because we are not in lockdown and we are not dealing with too many cases.’
Queensland emergency specialists, surgeons and doctors called for data from Queensland Health and the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) to reflect the increasing number of patients being placed on the hospital system, evidenced by ‘ramping’, where ambulances have to wait first. is forced to. Patients can be admitted.
“There is a very real threat to our hospitals that are treating COVID cases, as we have already seen in New South Wales and Victoria,” emergency physician Dr Kim Hansen said in a statement.
“Our hospitals are very well equipped and ready for whatever may come,” Mr Miles said. ‘But we owe it to our brilliant health care workers to manage those impacts and be prepared to know what to expect. All we are asking is that the national cabinet should properly consider the implications of this.’
Queensland emergency specialists, surgeons and doctors have called for data from Queensland Health and the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) to support the growing number of patients placed on the hospital system, before the expected rise in COVID cases once limits again. Opened up.
He criticized the Commonwealth government for ‘artificially’ limiting its funding agreement to increase activity in state hospitals before the pandemic.
‘The pandemic will obviously drive demand that exceeds that. We want the federal government to increase its contribution to that partnership.
As a result of Lismore being declared a hotspot in northern NSW, further restrictions were applied along the NSW-Queensland border.
‘People should only move to northern NSW for those few essential reasons,’ Dr Young said.
‘I would like people to limit their movement’ [into that area] Until NSW brings those matters under control.
Dr Young had previously indicated a new unlinked Delta case that, as announced today, would likely lead to a lockdown, but he ruled it out as an option.
“The fact that she’s been double vaccinated, the fact that her family is negative … it’s reassuring,” she said.
Meanwhile, Professor Tony Blakely, lead epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne, said Queensland has been fortunate to have avoided a large outbreak of the delta variant.
‘[Queensland] The killer has been lucky, to be blunt,’ said Professor Blakely.
‘He has dodged some bullets. It is true that their compliance has been good, but there is a lot of luck with this virus.’
‘Sometimes one person can spread it to 20 and sometimes 10 people can’t spread it to anyone. Queensland has had some luck there.
There are now 26 active COVID cases in Queensland.
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