The risk of another lockdown in Queensland is falling as close contacts of a small cluster south of Brisbane test negative for COVID-19.
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"I know a lot of people were coming up to me on the weekend, concerned about whether or not we were going into a lockdown, but we have less risk now that is easing," she told reporters.The Beenleigh cluster currently involves three cases - the truck driver who sparked it and two of his contacts, a four-year-old girl and the girl's mother.
Negative tests have also been returned by 34 of the 36 Windaroo State School students who attended before or after school care."Unfortunately, those 900 families will need to remain in quarantine until we get those results ... I do hope we are able to work with the family so those two children get tested."
The salon manager, four staff, and four customers had all tested negative but Dr Young is still trying to identify three or four others, with all but one customer at the salon failing to use the check-in contact tracing app.Dr Young again appealed to all Queenslanders to use the state's relative lull in cases to get vaccinated, and revealed GPs are not using all the Pfizer doses they're being allocated by the federal government.
The state halted returns and new arrivals last month, when hotels authorised to provide quarantine services reached capacity.
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