02 July 2021

Good afternoon colleagues,

A quick update today.

The Premier announced early this morning that there were two new overseas acquired cases of COVID-19 detected in hotel quarantine and three new locally acquired cases. One case is connected to the airport worker announced yesterday, and two cases are from the community with possible links yet to be established.

Because of this, the lockdown is being extended for another 24 hours in the Brisbane City Council and Moreton Bay local government areas.

The lockdown will end at 6pm in Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, Palm Island and Townsville. However, there will be restrictions that continue to apply in these areas, which will remain in place for the next two weeks e.g. mask wearing and hospital visitor restrictions. If you live in these areas but work in Brisbane City Council or Moreton Bay, you will still need to abide by the lockdown restrictions applicable to those areas when at home.

I urge you to continue regularly checking the contact tracing exposure sites, maintaining physical distancing and practicing good hand hygiene.

We have so many teams working hard to respond to these outbreaks, to vaccinate our population and to keep all of our services up and running. Thank you for pulling together at this challenging time.

Kind regards,

Dr Liz Rushbrook
Metro North Incident Controller

Metro North HHS – overview of cases*

*As at 02/07/2021 at 1000

**Metro North Health has four recorded deaths (one person a return traveller into NSW, who passed away in NSW)   

*** These numbers reflect the cases being managed by Metro North Health.