Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 update 370 & Intense rainfall event update 8 | 08/03/2022
Louise O’Riordan Metro North Health Incident Controller
Dr Liz Rushbrook
Metro North Health Incident Controller
Dear colleagues,
- Intense rainfall event update
- STAND DOWN
- Current situation
- Donations
- COVID-19 update
- PPE requirement
INTENSE RAINFALL EVENT UPDATE
Stand Down
Metro North has moved to STAND DOWN for the intense rainfall event (STAND DOWN Code Brown). We are currently firmly in recovery operations.
You can see the levels of activation and what they mean in your local Emergency Management Plan. Our Emergency Management team continues to monitor the weather situation closely. We will re-activate should it be required in the short term.
Current situation
The Brisbane River has been dropping and is now below the MINOR flood level at high tide. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a final flood warning for the lower Brisbane River.
Metro North is still providing support to flood isolated communities, vulnerable facilities and evacuation centres.
Donations
If you would like to make a donation of goods or money, you can contact these local charities:
- Givit (donations of goods)
- Red Cross – 1300 554 419 (free call)
- Foodbank – 07 3395 8422
- Salvation Army – 13 72 58
- Lifeline – 1800 800 768
COVID-19 UPDATE
Today there are 4397 reported cases of COVID-19 in Queensland.
PPE requirement
While masks are no longer mandatory when you’re out and about in the community, they are still required for:
- Healthcare settings
- Residential aged care facilities
- Disability accommodation
- Correctional facilities
- While waiting for and on public transport
- In taxis and rideshares,
- At airports and on all domestic and international flights.
Where a mask as required and if you cannot physically distance.
You are required to wear the PPE appropriate for your type of work as outlined in the high-risk category of the PPE matrix.
At a minimum, this is a flat surgical mask in non-clinical areas.
Kind regards,
Louise O’Riordan and Dr Liz Rushbrook
Metro North Health Incident Controller
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Current Metro North Health tier activated – Tier 2
Helpful links
- Register your positive RAT result
- Upload evidence of your vaccine or booster
- Vaccination locations
- Qld Health general COVID-19 page
- Metro North COVID-19 extranet
- COVID vidcast recordings on QHEPS
Metro North HHS – overview of cases*
| Patients managed by HHS | Fever clinics | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Deaths** | No. of clinics | Presentations | |||
| Total | ICU patients | Yesterday | |||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 37 | 1 | 1 | 279 | 44 | 3 | 121 | |
Norfolk Island – overview of cases***
| Patients managed by HHS | Close Contacts in quarantine | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Total cases including recovered | Deaths | ||||
| Total | ICU patients | ||||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 0 | ||
*As at the above date
**Metro North Health has recorded deaths (one person a return traveller into NSW, who passed away in NSW)
*** As part of an Intergovernmental Agreement, from 1 January 2022 Metro North Health is providing a number of health support services to Norfolk Island. This includes advice and support to staff on island in terms of managing COVID patients. The numbers in this section of the table refer to COVID patients who remain on Norfolk Island and are receiving direct care by staff on Norfolk Island.