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Annastacia Palaszczuk hints at ANOTHER closure of the Queensland border as New South Wales cases hit 28
- Sydney’s Covid-19 outbreak has grown to 28 cases after testing on Thursday
- One further case of a person who travelled to Queensland was also diagnosed
- Queensland has recorded three new cases of coronavirus, one linked to NSW
Annastacia Palaszcuk has hinted at a partial closure of the Queensland border after an explosion of community transmitted cases in Sydney.
Sydney’s Covid-19 outbreak grew to 28 cases after extensive testing on Thursday identified 10 more cases.
Ms Palaszcuk said health authorities were continuing to monitor the growing hotspot in NSW and would not hesitate to act.
‘This is of concern, we are on high alert,’ she said.
‘It is a rapidly growing situation but at this stage we will continue to observe that hotspot regime.’
One of the cases linked to the northern beaches cluster was a woman in her 50s who travelled to Queensland this week.
Annastacia Palaszcuk has hinted at a partial closure of the Queensland border after an explosion of community transmitted cases in Sydney
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the woman had already arrived in Queensland when she was informed of the potential infection.
She had flown into the state on a Jetstar flight and was tested as soon as she was informed about the Sydney outbreak.
She was then instructed to return to NSW and received her positive test result while driving back across the border.
There are now 11 active cases in Queensland.
People in Queensland who have been in the Northern Beaches since December 11 must immediately isolate at home for 14 days and get tested.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young brought in the rules on Thursday night after the Sydney cluster spread to 17 cases.
Thousands of anxious passengers are desperately trying to fly out of Sydney before their Christmas travel plans are ruined after a growing Covid outbreak on the city’s northern beaches
Sydney’s Covid-19 outbreak has grown to 28 cases after extensive testing on Thursday identified 10 more cases
More than 250,000 residents from the Spit Bridge up to Palm Beach have been ordered to isolate immediately amid fears of a Victoria-style outbreak.
Officials say the strain of the virus is international but they don’t know how it got into the community with three cases first recorded on Wednesday.
The growing outbreak has put the Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on high alert less than three weeks after she reopened her state’s border to Greater Sydney residents for the first time since August.
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