Queensland records one new locally acquired case of COVID-19 - 9News

There is one new locally-acquired case of COVID-19 in Queensland today, a close contact of a positive case linked to the North Brisbane cluster.

The man has been in quarantine since March 27, after being identified as a close contact due to having visited the Black Hops Brewery on the Gold Coast seven days prior.

He was tested as a close contact of a confirmed case and initially returned a negative result, but has since tested positive.

Testing rates have remained high in south-east Queensland following the state's two recent clusters. (Nine)

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young said the man posed "no risk" to the community as he had been in quarantine for his entire infectious period.

"The good news is that the lockdown has served its purpose in that the people we were tracing had been able to be quarantined before they were infectious, which is exactly the purpose in which we sought to have the lockdown," Queensland's Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said.

There have also been two new cases detected in hotel quarantine, both of which are believed to be historical infections.

The results come from 25,837 COVID-19 tests conducted across Queensland in the past 24 hours.

In further good news for the state, 11 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital in the past 24 hours, with 74 still remaining.

"But 74, of course, is still very high, and we are looking after those people in our hospital system currently," Ms D'Ath said.

More to come.

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2021-04-02 23:56:07Z
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