Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced she will “smash” coronavirus in Queensland, though she has warned against complacency as the curve continues to flatten.
The states total cases have now reached 998 after a rise of 35 cases over the Easter weekend.
“We are really going well with flattening that curve and like I said let’s smash it,” Ms Palaszczuk told Nine Network’s Today.
The Premier warned against complacency and calls to ease restrictions on movement and social gatherings in the coming weeks.
“I don’t think people can feel complacent that just because we’ve had low numbers then that’s the end of it, because what we are doing is we are flattening the curve,” she said.
“If you lift too early, of course, you see what has happened in other countries where those high rates of infection are causing their hospital systems to reach full capacity and we don’t want to see that happening in Australia,” she said.
The Sunshine Coast region has recorded two new cases over the long weekend, bringing the total for the region to 21 active cases and 67 recovered cases.
