March 27, 2020
There have now been 555 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Queensland, Queensland Health announced on Friday afternoon.
This is up 62 on Thursday’s total.
The total number of confirmed cases in the Darling Downs Health Region is still 17, steady from Thursday.
In the Wide Bay Health Region, the number is now 16, up four.
The areas with the largest number of confirmed cases continues to be Metro North (165), Metro South (132), Gold Coast (106) and Sunshine Coast (64).
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At 3:00pm, Friday, the total number of positive cases across Australia was 3166 and 13 people have died.
There have been 367 new cases since 3:00pm on Thursday.
More than 184,000 tests have been conducted across Australia.
NSW continues to have the largest number of confirmed cases (1405) followed by Victoria (574) and then Queensland.
Speaking at a press conference in Canberra on Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said two-thirds of all cases were linked to Australian travellers who had returned home.
For this reason, the Commonwealth – from midnight tomorrow – would be putting all returning travellers into quarantine in hotels or other accommodation for 14 days upon arrival.
This quarantine would be mandatory before they could go home.
The Australian Defence Force would be called upon to assist local State and Territory enforcement agencies to ensure these quarantines were maintained.
The ADF would also assist State and Territory with compliance checks on people who are in self-isolation at home.
