Queensland records 16 new local COVID cases as people warned to stay home | fel_caldwell
Queensland has reported 16 new locally acquired coronavirus cases linked to the Indooroopilly Delta cluster that plunged 11 areas, including Brisbane, into an eight-day lockdown.
One case was linked to Indooroopilly State High School, four were linked to Brisbane Grammar, two were linked to Brisbane Girls Grammar School with a student and a teacher testing positive, three at Ironside State School, five were household or family contacts of already confirmed cases and one was a neighbour of a known case.
Dr Young said she was still concerned authorities had not yet linked the current cluster to two returned international travellers and she urged everyone to stay home if possible.Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young provides the latest COVID update for Queensland.“That way I hope that if we have other chains of transmission out there, it will burn out and we can lift restrictions, lockdown requirements, at 4pm Sunday.
o the highly contagious Delta strain, with authorities struggling to link the growing cluster to two returned international travellers who flew to Brisbane on June 29.It has affected several schools, including St Peters Lutheran College, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Ironside State School, Pullenvale State School and St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School.
Overnight, a raft of new contact tracing sites were added, including Sunnybank Private Hospital and the Princess Alexandra Hospital, while an under-8s soccer player with the, forcing authorities to extend the snap lockdown in Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Logan, Noosa Shire, Redland City, Scenic Rim, Somerset and Sunshine Coast regions until 4pm on Sunday.
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