Students and their families were forced into 14 days home quarantine BrisbaneK school clusters are preparing for independence queensland Four new cases were registered on Wednesday.
Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk announced that the lockdown in Cairns will be lifted at 4 pm today.
“Since we have had a few such cases in Cairns, Dr Young has asked if we can implement sanctions for SEQs,” she said.
‘They will apply to Cairns now to make sure we don’t have any community transmission.’
Despite the end of the lockdown, wearing a mask will be mandatory in Cairns as it is across south-east Queensland for the foreseeable future.
The new cases were all linked to the Indoroppilli State High School cluster and were in home quarantine.
The group that sent a week to South-East Queensland lockdown Over 120 active COVID cases were reported and over 13,000 people were put under quarantine.
Those in quarantine will have to undergo a mandatory second COVID test to be able to come out of isolation.
Families with the Indoropili outbreak tested yesterday on Day 12 of Quarantine, while those associated with the Brisbane Grammar School and the Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School cluster will take the test today before the quarantine ends on Friday.
Health worker Sandy O’Brien tests truck driver Justin Stephens for COVID-19 at Brisbane Entertainment Center testing site
A Cairns cab driver, who tested positive after being contagious for 10 days in the community, begins a three-day lockdown in the city
Staff and officers are seen at Indoropilly State High School in Brisbane on 30 July, as the latest outbreak of COVID-19 begins in Queensland. The school community is now set to emerge from the 14-day home quarantine
The new cases include a student at Brisbane Boys Grammar School and a domestic contact of another school student.
A student at Ironside State School and a student at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School make up the other two cases.
Ms Palaszczuk was again forced to defend her government’s use of research on the effects of the COVID lockdown, saying the findings would not be released and that she had only seen a ‘limited amount’ of research.
‘They were issues about the impact on tourism, the impact on business, the well-being of the people, and much of it went to … that the Covid Task Force was looking at in terms of health campaigns and the health message to the public, what the message Was it needed?’ he said.
Staff look inside the mass COVID-19 vaccination center at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane
The update was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center where 1,500 people stood at the mass vaccination venue on Wednesday.
The center aims to have 3,000 vaccinations a day by the end of this week, when Pfizer’s supplies reach Queensland from September to August.
Ms Palaszczuk said more vaccination centers would open in southeast and regional Queensland as Pfizer’s supply increased in the months before Christmas.
Chief Health Officer Dr Janet Young said around 20 per cent of Queenslanders are now fully vaccinated.
“We really and truly have to aim to vaccinate at least 70 percent of our eligible population – that is, people 16 years of age or older – as soon as possible,” she said.
‘It will protect us when we have our next outbreak, unfortunately, I’m sure we will.
‘And that means we’ll be able to manage individual outbreaks going forward. As soon as we get 70 percent of our adults, over the age of 16, vaccinated, we’ll be able to do things a lot more differently.’
People line up for a COVID-19 test at a testing station set up on Cairns Esplanade
Dr Young sympathized with Queensland teachers who must wear masks when teaching, as well as all high school students, after reports that teaching staff were disappointed with the order.
‘I know [masks] are terrible, I hate them and I go home at night with a dry throat because I’ve been talking through them all day,’ she said.
‘I’m sure that’s the case with teachers and I sympathize, I really do, but it’s important and for teachers, please yourself take advantage of the vaccine that’s been provided to you because now we’re in Delta With version know, kids are at risk of getting it and spreading it to teachers.’
The neighboring tribal community of Cairns and Yaraba were ordered into a three-day lockdown at 4 p.m. on Sunday after a taxi driver who spent 10 days in the community was found to be contagious.
In those seven days, was behind the wheel of his cab, driving passengers around the city. He was not vaccinated.
Residents have been flocking to the testing centers ever since the news of the case came to light on Sunday.
Officials have determined that Cabbie caught the virus from a Marine pilot at Cairns Airport on 26 July.
He mistakenly assumed he had been infected later, explaining why the cabbie was not initially picked up as a contact with the Marine pilot.
In the meantime, Dr Young may be expecting another day of some new cases in the southeast.
There were only three new locally acquired cases on Tuesday, all linked to the Indoropily cluster and all in isolation for their infectious period.
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