Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 update 393 | 19/04/2022
Dear colleagues,
- Current Tier 4 situation
- Planned care
- Staff testing clinics
There are 6467 new COVID cases reported in Queensland.
Current tier 4 situation
We currently have 505 COVID patients in our care, including 132 inpatients with 4 in ICU. This is our lowest number of COVID patients for several months and hopefully the numbers will continue to decline.
Today we still have 735 staff out of the workplace either as close contacts or COVID positive. We continue to work through the Critically Essential Worker process to bring people back when possible.
Metro North is still in Tier 4 of our COVID response plan.
Planned care
From tomorrow we will resume planned care in line with Tier 4.
This includes category 1 elective surgeries and outpatient appointments and category 4 endoscopies. STARS will resume full planned care from tomorrow.
Staff testing clinics
If you have any COVID symptoms, please get tested.
Staff can access PCR tests at TPCH and Redcliffe fever clinics. Other sites have RAT kits available.
Details of where to get a COVID test are available on the COVID extranet.
Regards,
Louise O’Riordan
Metro North Health Incident Controller
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Current Metro North Health tier activated – Tier 4
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 | ||||||
| 133 | 1 | 2 | 373 | 58 | 3 | 201 | |
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 | 29 | 224 | 0 | 14 | |
*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.