A Gold Coast shopping centre has been put on alert after being visited by a COVID-positive person.
Queensland imposed restrictions in some areas of the state’s south east, with a lockdown not ruled out, after two new local cases were confirmed on Tuesday.
Late on Monday, Queensland Health advised the Oasis Shopping Centre had been identified as an exposure site.
Anyone who attended the Woolworths inside the shopping centre on Saturday June 26 from 1.25pm-1.50pm or the BWS from 1.30pm-2pm is now considered a close contact.
Those people must now immediately self-isolate and get tested until further advice is issued by Queensland Health.
The female public toilets at Ban Ban Springs have also been exposed to the virus.
Anyone who visited the toilets on Saturday June 26 from 9am-11.59am is now a casual contact who must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is returned.
Low-risk locations
Three other venues were added as low-risk locations with people who attended at the specified times asked to get tested but not isolate unless symptoms are present.
The locations include:
BP Stapylton (Yatala) on Saturday June 26 from 11.55am-12.20pm
Broadbeach Savannah Hotel and Resort, Broadbeach on Saturday June 26 from 12.50pm-6pm
Oasis shopping centre, Broadbeach on Saturday June 26 from 1.15pm-2.10pm
For a full list of exposure sites, visit Queensland Health here.
Brink of lockdown
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Monday warned Queensland was on the verge of another lockdown, and Tuesday and Wednesday’s test results would determine which way things go.
The high level of concern comes amid concerns a large group of miners may have returned home carrying the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.
One of the 170 miners is already confirmed to have the variant after spending a day out and about in the Sunshine Coast region while infectious.
Health authorities are waiting on test results for the other 169, who have been ordered into isolation.
It’s unclear how widely the group dispersed after returning to Queensland last week from the Newmont-owned Granites gold mine, about 540km northwest of Alice Springs.
In all, 900 fly-in, fly-out workers left the mine for locations across Australia after a worker from Victoria became infected while passing through a quarantine hotel in Brisbane, en route to the mine.
There’s also high level concern about passengers who travelled with an infected crew member on flights from Sydney to Brisbane and the Gold Coast over the weekend.
“We will not hesitate to take action,” the premier warned after mandating the use of masks in 11 local government areas across southeast Queensland for a fortnight.
On Monday evening six Virgin flights into and out of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin and the Gold Coast on June 25-26 were added as COVID-19 exposure sites by Queensland Health.
- with AAP
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