Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and CHO Jeannette Young are set to provide a COVID update on Tuesday morning, once NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has finished giving her own update at 11am. You’ll be able to watch it LIVE in the video player above, as soon as it starts.
Queenslanders are waiting to learn if they’ll face another lockdown amid grave concerns about dozens of miners who may have returned home carrying the highly infectious Delta variant.
On Monday, a miner was confirmed to have the dreaded strain after spending a day out and about in the Sunshine Coast while infectious.
Authorities are waiting on test results for about 170 other mine workers, who have been ordered into isolation after returning from an NT mine where 900 staff have been identified as close contacts.
They were potentially exposed after a Victorian worker there became infected while passing through a Brisbane quarantine hotel, en-route to the mine.
Palaszczuk warned that the state’s southeast will go into lockdown if unlinked cases emerge on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“We are on the verge (of a lockdown), but we are monitoring very, very closely over the next 24 to 48 hours (whether) will we see any further community outbreaks in Queensland,” she said.
“This is the Delta strain, you’ve seen how quickly it escalated in NSW over a period of about 10 days.
“So, you know, we’re looking at this day by day and we will not hesitate to take action.”
Face masks are now mandatory indoors and outdoors in 11 local government areas across the southeast for 14 days.
The government is concerned about passengers who travelled with an infected crew member on flights from Sydney to Brisbane and the Gold Coast over the weekend.
Another 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.
Even 63 police officers have become caught up in the potential outbreak.
Some officers patrolling the State of Origin game at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday night had to leave mid-match upon being ordered to self-isolate.
The officers are among police staff who may have been exposed to a Brisbane watch house cleaner who was infected with Alpha strain COVID-19.
- with AAP
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