“It’s very important across the whole community in Cairns that anyone who’s unwell with any respiratory symptoms - a cough, sore throat or shortness of breath - that you immediately go and see your own GP or go to the fever clinics in Cairns to be tested,” she said.
The testing criteria for Cairns had already been extended two weeks ago to include anybody presenting symptoms even if they did not know where they may have picked them up rather than just those who in the last 14 days had had contact with a confirmed case or had been overseas.
However, as the Douglas Shire is separate, it is not included in the testing criteria expansion which encompasses Palm Cove, Mareeba, and Gordonvale, and the previous testing eligibly criteria remains in place.
“We are now doing further work to make sure that there are no other unwell staff members or patients in the Cairns Hospital," Dr Young said.
“As a further precaution, Cairns Hospital is starting to screen all staff working from today to determine if there has been wider transmission. If anyone says they have symptoms or have had symptoms since 19 March, they will be referred to the fever clinic for testing. Contact tracing is also continuing.
“It’s important to understand that there is a low risk of further transmission but we need to make every effort possible to ensure this disease does not spread further.
“We haven’t seen a lot of cases in Cairns, I would suspect if there was a widespread problem that we would have seen a lot more cases,” she said.
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