COVID-19 update 358 | 19/02/2022
Dear colleagues
- PPE matrix and COVID plan
- School and community pop-up vaccination clinics
- How to register your booster
Today, there were 4,919 new COVID-19 cases reported in Queensland.
PPE matrix and COVID plan
Metro North Health remains at Tier 3 of our COVID response plan. All staff are reminded that we are still in the high-risk category in the PPE matrix, which outlines the appropriate PPE for your type of work.
School and community vaccination pop-up clinics
COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters are available at a range of school and community pop-up sites, including:
| Deception Bay State High School Phillip Parade, Deception Bay Date: Sat 19 Feb, 9am-2.30pm |
Dakabin State High School Marsden Road, Dakabin Date: Sat 19 Feb, 9am-2.30pm |
| Morayfield State School 196-230 Morayfield Rd Morayfield Date: Sat 19 Feb, 9am-3pm |
Caboolture Showgrounds 140 Beerburrum Rd, Caboolture Date: Sun 20 Feb, 9am-3pm |
| Tangalooma Island Resort Tangalooma, Moreton Island QLD Date: Mon 21 Feb, 3pm-8pm Date: Tue 22 Feb, 7am-11am |
Taigum State School 266 Handford Road, Taigum Date: Mon 21 Feb, 2.30pm-6pm Date: Tue 22 Feb, 2.30pm-6pm |
For full details about where COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters are available this weekend, click here.
How to register your booster
Lastly today, a reminder that information about fit testing and staff testing locations is available on the Metro North extranet site.
Kind regards,
Kate Copeland
Metro North Health Incident Controller
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Current Metro North Health tier activated – Tier 3
Helpful links
- Register your positive RAT result
- Upload evidence of your vaccine
- Qld Health contact tracing list
- Register for your vaccine
- 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 | ||||||
| 42 | 6 | 2 | 317 | 36 | 6 | 286 | |
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 | 11 | 103 | 0 | 2 | |
*As at the above date
**Metro North Health has 36 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.