COVID-19 update 359 | 20/02/2022
- COVID-19 vaccination/booster locations
- Fit testing
- Testing sites and registering a positive RAT result
Queensland’s Chief Health Officer announced this morning that there had been 4,265 new COVID-19 cases reported across Queensland since yesterday.
COVID-19 vaccination/booster locations
The Chief Health Officer has also highlighted the continuing importance of vaccinations and boosters in managing this and future waves. If you are due for your COVID-19 vaccination booster, please take action. Boosters are available at all Metro North vaccination clinics.
COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters are also at these pop-up community and school locations:
- Caboolture Showgrounds, 140 Beerburrum Rd, Caboolture – today until 3pm
- Tangalooma Island Resort, Moreton Island – Monday 21 Feb, 3pm-8pm, and Tuesday 22 Feb, 7am-11am.
- Taigum State School, 266 Handford Road, Taigum – Monday 21 Feb, 2.30pm-6pm and Tuesday 22 Feb, 2.30pm-6pm.
If you have already had your COVID-19 vaccination booster, please record it by clicking here.
Fit testing
Metro North Health remains committed to prioritising fit testing for all our frontline staff. Please check the fit testing schedule for details on how to get fit tested at your hospital or facility. If you have any concerns about fit testing, you can let us know through the fit testing feedback portal. Urgent issues should also be escalated to your line manager and facility EOC for resolution.
Testing sites and registering a positive RAT result
Details on where staff can access COVID-19 testing are available on the extranet site. Information on how register a positive RAT result is also available by clicking here.
Lastly today, a reminder that Metro North Health is still in the high-risk category of the PPE matrix, which outlines the appropriate PPE for your type of work.
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 | ||||||
| 59 | 4 | 1 | 295 | 37 | 5 | 231 | |
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 | 7 | 103 | 0 | 2 | |
*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.