Breaking: Victoria has recorded 270 new COVID-19 cases today, including 28 linked to known outbreaks and 242 which are still under investigation
The Australian Medical Association Queensland has warned closing the Queensland borders for a second time is "not completely out of the question".AMAQ president Dr Chris Perry said another mass closure could happen"in the next week or next month""We have to watch social distancing in nightclubs and restaurants [and] waiting outside the nightclubs, that might need to be policed a little bit more," Dr Perry told the inquiry.
The Premier said Queenslanders must maintain their vigilance regarding social distancing and testing rates, as other states try to manage multiple outbreaks.Australian singer and television personality Dannii Minogue received a state government exemption and avoided hotel quarantine upon returning to Queensland from the US.
"Anyone can apply for those exemptions and the Chief Health Officer [Dr Jeannette Young] considers all of the advice put to her from other medical professionals," Mr Miles said. "In this case, I understand that the person in question is in quarantine and all of the quarantine conditions will be enforced on her."She has come from a high-risk location and so, like anyone arriving back from the United States, we need her to comply with those quarantine conditions.Staying in her private residence, reportedly on the Gold Coast, means Minogue will be spared having to pay $2800 in hotel quarantine costs enforced on others crossing the border..
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