Queensland acquired two cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, one of which is a Queenslander living in Western Australia, the other is the contact of an already known case.
This brings the state total to 1,026, 20 Queenslanders are in hospital due to COVID-19, seven of those are in intensive care and six require ventilation.
Yesterday 2,539 tests were completed, meaning Queensland is sustaining a very low percentage of positive cases.
Dr Jeannette Young said both recent cases are either linked to previous known cases or have been acquired from overseas.
“That means that Queenslanders are continuing to follow those extraordinarily onerous requirements.
“It’s important that we continue those as we go forward, because we know that we could rapidly unravel, were we to change what we are doing in a way that didn’t continue to maintain those restrictions,” Dr Young said.
“We haven’t seen any additional cases up in Cairns which is very good news, the hospital there has done a fantastic job.”
Premier Palaszczuk said she is eagerly waiting for NRL to act so she can ‘immediately’ forward it to Dr Young for her consideration.
Dr Young continued to say that she is excited to receive said plan from NRL and other codes to work towards allowing elite sports to resume.
Yesterday the Premier announced a new webpage accessible for the general public which details cases around the state, specific to local council areas.
This resource provides information regarding how many cases are in a specific area, demographic of cases including age and gender and heat maps.
It has been revealed that Noosa has had 15 confirmed cases, 10 of which were acquired overseas, three were locally acquired with the contact known, one case with the contact unknown and one case acquired from out of state.
The Sunshine Coast has a further 70 cases, 61 acquired from overseas.
It has not been specified if the cases remain active or if the infected have since made a recovery.
It can be found on health.qld.gov.au/covid-data
