Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 update 385 | 6/04/2022
Dear colleagues,
- Current Tier 3 situation
- Community restrictions easing
- Record your booster
There are 8534 new COVID cases reported in Queensland.
Current Tier 3 situation
Metro North has 868 staff currently out of the workplace due to either being close contacts or COVID positive. This is in addition to other sick leave and planned school holiday leave.
We currently have 861 patients in our care, including 72 inpatients with 7 in ICU. We are working to create more inpatient capacity for COVID patients in our acute facilities.
So far we have supported 144 staff who are close contacts to return to work under the Critically Essential Worker requirements.
Metro North remains on Tier 3 of our COVID-19 response plan. This means a significant reduction in planned care and the suspension of face to face meetings. Please review the Tier 3 plan for more details.
Community restrictions easing
Community restrictions will ease from 1am next Thursday 14 April.
This will allow unvaccinated people to visit some venues including pubs, clubs, cafes and restaurants; theme parks, casinos and cinemas; weddings; showgrounds; and galleries, libraries, museums and stadiums.
Current vaccination and check-in requirements remain in place until 14 April.
Vaccination and check-in requirements will continue for anyone visiting or working in vulnerable settings (hospitals, disability accommodation services and residential aged care) as well as for workers in high risk settings including schools, childcare, prisons and airports.
There will be no change to the requirement for staff to be vaccinated under Health Employment Directive 12/21.
Record your booster
Evidence of you COVID vaccine booster can be uploaded to the Queensland Health COVID-19 Vaccination Hub easily:
- Download your COVID digital certificate from your myGov account
- Go to the COVID-19 Vaccination Hub
- Choose the +Booster Vaccination option
- Add your booster details
- Upload or drag and drop your certificate
- Save
Find your nearest clinic on the Queensland Health website including school holiday pop ups.
Kind regards,
Louise O’Riordan
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 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 | ||||||
| 73 | 5 | 2 | 789 | 55 | 3 | 195 | |
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 | 25 | 160 | 0 | 20 | |
*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.