By Rose Astley
Five new cases have been recorded across the state in the last 24 hours, three are old cases from other states that have been added to Queensland’s data.
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the two new cases are from Brisbane and the Gold Coast, health officials are working on tracking where the individual from the Gold Coast contracted the virus.
The Brisbane case was contracted from another known COVID-19 patient.
“It is important to recognise that we are still getting the occasional case and if we don’t manage that and we have more people out and about it could be a risk,” Dr Young said.
Dr Young said that they have seen a slight decrease in the number of people coming forward to be tested, she believes this is because people are feeling healthy but warns if anyone has any respiratory issues to be tested immediately.
“If you’ve got any symptoms at all, please, this is really, really important, don’t stay at home, come forward to get tested, because then we can, if it is covid-19, make sure we immediately contact trace,” Dr Young said.
There are currently 57 active cases across QLD, with 980 patients recovered.
In the last 24 hours there have been 1069 tests, nine patients are currently in hospital, four in intensive care and one on ventilation at either The Gold Coast, Metro North or South hospitals.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she will be ‘starting conversations’ with café and restaurant heads as well as tourism operators to put in place a clear road map to recovery.
It comes after the Premier announced a ‘back to school’ plan that will see different year levels return to school in stages.
“It is really important once we have settled our plans for schools, that now we can focus our plan for Queensland’s economic recovery, including jobs,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“I am sure this arrangement is going to benefit the whole school community, but also then we are absolutely focused on how we can get people back to work as well.
“That will be the focus of my discussions this week when I am meeting with a variety of stakeholders to set out a similar plan to this.”
“I think June is a good ambitious target for cafes,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
