Queensland records three new community cases of COVID while in lockdown - Brisbane Times

Genomic testing has linked the hospital receptionist’s case to a returned traveller who was being treated at the Prince Charles Hospital.

It means Queensland is battling a new emerging COVID cluster, with other clusters sourced back to a Portuguese restaurant, a mine worker who contracted the virus in hotel quarantine in Brisbane and an infected Virgin cabin crew member.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles said the returned traveller was “allowed to come and go between Australia and Indonesia repeatedly throughout this pandemic by the Morrison government”.

“They are not vaccinated. And have been through our hotel quarantine several times,” he said.

“Yesterday, 223 international travellers arrived here in Queensland.“

Mr Miles said the state government had never said vulnerable Australians should not be repatriated home through hotel quarantine but thousands of people were allowed to enter despite not being nationals.

“These travellers are displacing Australians who are genuinely stranded overseas,” he said.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said there needed to be a “serious conversation” about ensuring that people are vaccinated coming into this country”.

Despite a national cabinet decision that GPs would be indemnified if people younger than 40 opted to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, Ms Palaszczuk insisted the advice was that they receive Pfizer.

“There has been no national cabinet decision about AstraZeneca being given to under 40s,” she said.

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Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she did not want under 40s to receive AstraZeneca because they were at an increased risk blood clots.

“I don’t want an 18-year-old in Queensland dying from a clotting illness who, if they got COVID probably wouldn’t die,” she said.

“We’ve had very few deaths due to COVID-19 in Australia in people under the age of 50, and wouldn’t it be terrible that our first 18-year-old in Queensland who dies related to this pandemic died because of the vaccine?”

The other two cases reported on Wednesday include a close contact from the Portuguese Family Centre restaurant cluster and a close contact of a Virgin crew member, with both already in quarantine.

Another case was also detected in hotel quarantine.

There are now 42 active cases of COVID-19 in Queensland, with 18,000 tests performed in the past 24 hours.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said there were now 42 active cases of COVID in Queensland.

“Which does concern me because a lot of these active cases are the Delta variant,” she said.

Several shops at the busy Chermside Shopping Centre have also been listed as exposure sites.

Genomic sequencing has revealed that the hospital worker in Brisbane contracted COVID from a returned traveller who was being treated at the Prince Charles Hospital.

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