Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast has been cancelled due to COVID-19, while three more people in Queensland have been diagnosed with the virus.
Three people in their 30s were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Queensland overnight, bringing the number of active cases to 20.
Two of the infected people - a 33-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man - are corrective services recruits and contracted the virus in a dining room at the academy.The other is a 33-year-old man who attended a training course.Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said health officials did not know how the virus had spread within that training centre or who was the primary case.
Personal protective equipment requirements for hospitals, aged care facilities and disability service providers will also be extended to the region.Queensland prisons in full lockdown after training officer contracts coronavirus About 7,000 inmates from the central coast to the southeast of the state were quarantined after the trainer was diagnosed with the virus.
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