NSW COVID-19 cases prompt travel alerts in Queensland

 

Queensland residents are being urged to reconsider plans to travel to Sydney after two locally acquired COVID-19 cases were recorded in New South Wales.

Three flights are due to depart Cairns for Sydney today, and a further seven tomorrow.

10 flights are arriving from Sydney over the same two days.

The New South Wales cases include two close family contacts who have the Indian variant.

The original case is believed to have been an overseas traveller who didn’t have any direct contact with them.

“We will be watching whether New South Wales is able to identify how this first gentlemen was able to acquire the virus without having come into contact with this overseas traveller,” said Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath.

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“If you were considering travelling to Greater Sydney over the next few days you should consider your plans because we don’t know what’s going to evolve over the next few days.

“If there are broader cases and if Dr Young recommends that there needs to be hotspots of areas, instead of venues, then of course we would follow that advice.”

From 1-am tomorrow anyone who has been to exposed venues at prescribed times and dates will go into hotel quarantine upon arrival in Queensland.

“We will have police and health workers meeting flights coming into Queensland to just check with passengers whether they’ve been at those venues,” Ms D’Ath said.

Anyone who’s already in Queensland and has visited at-risk venues is being asked to immediately get tested and isolate, whether that be at home or in accommodation.

People who have been in Sydney since 27th April are being asked to get tested if they have any symptoms.

The list of venues visited by the confirmed cases is extensive and the geographical locations widespread.

They include:

  • Barbeques Galore, Annandale
  • SMITH MADE, Balgowlah
  • Bondi Trattoria, Bondi Beach
  • Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction
  • The Meat Store, Bondi Junction
  • Rug Cleaning Repairs Hand Rug Wash, Brookvale
  • Barbeques Galore, Casula
  • Alfresco Emporium, Collaroy
  • Chemist Warehouse, Double Bay
  • Woolworths, Double Bay
  • BP Runway, Mascot
  • Azure Café, Moore Park
  • The Stadium Club, Moore Park
  • Barbetta, Paddington
  • The Royal Sydney Golf Club, Rose Bay
  • Figo Restaurant, Rushcutters Bay
  • Joe’s Barbeques and Heating, Silverwater
  • Tucker Barbeques, Silverwater
  • District Brasserie, Sydney
  • HineSight Optometrist, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
  • Fratelli Fresh, Sydney

New restrictions will come into force in New South Wales from tonight until at least Monday, limiting household guests to 20, making masks compulsory in indoor public venues and on public transport, and restricting aged care visits to two people. 

Meantime, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has confirmed a case of blood clotting in North Queensland as a direct result of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

A 66 year-old has been admitted to Townsville ICU.

Queensland has recorded three new COVID-19 cases in the past day, all of which are in hotel quarantine.

Two had travelled from Papua New Guinea and one from Nepal.

Currently, Queensland has 20 active cases.