BREAKING: Restrictions are set to be imposed on the Gold Coast after a new COVID19 cluster grew overnight, and the annual Schoolies event has been called off as Queensland records three new COVID-19 cases.
All new cases are linked to the prison officer trainer at the Queensland Corrective Services Academy trainer who tested positive yesterday. Two are based at Pimpama and one from Forest Lake.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said all new cases had had mild symptoms. All 200 people linked to the Academy will now be tested after the 25 close contacts tested negative. “But this group is so resilient and innovative, I’m looking forward to seeing what they put in place instead of mass gatherings.”
While he works at Wacol and lives in Forest Lake, suburbs that already have positive cases linked to the cluster, there is no “clear link” between them.Dr Young also said genomic testing had failed to reach a conclusive finding as to whether the strain of virus in the latest cluster was the same as the one brought up from Melbourne by two women who allegedly breached border protocols last month.
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