Fewer than 32 per cent of five to 11-year-olds in Queensland have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, meanwhile, ventilation quality in schools remains unclear.
The state government is "strongly advising" students and teachers to wear masks.
"[There is] a big onus on personal responsibility, but I know Queenslanders out there will step up," Ms Palaszczuk told reporters on Monday, as she revealed COVID-19 and flu hospital admissions had risen to 967. Adding to the pressure, the percentage of frontline healthcare staff off sick was at least twice the norm.A COVID-19 conscious gnome in Dr Aletia Johnson's office."I'm a doctor but I'm also a person and, like everybody else, unless somebody tells me I have to do something, I'm not going to do it," she said.
"I went to a large shopping centre a few weeks ago, and there were only two people wearing a mask, and that was me and my daughter," Dr Boulton said.Dr Johnson said COVID-19 was not the only thing keeping people under the weather.
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