April 8, 2020
Queenslanders are again being warned to stay at home this Easter with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urging people to do the right thing and “stay in their suburb”.
She said the isolation policies and contact tracing that had been implemented during the COVID-19 crisis were working with just nine new confirmed cases reported by Queensland Health since yesterday.
But Queensland had only just “begun this journey”.
“We have a good story in Queensland at the moment, so let’s keep it up,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“We are looking at six months here of these types of restrictions in terms of the social distancing, the isolation (and) the quarantining to flatten the curve.
“There is no talk of easing restrictions at this stage. Everybody just needs to do the right thing.
“We have got to flatten that curve so our hospitals can cope.”
Premier Palaszczuk said the initial modelling showed that if Queensland did not “flatten the curve”, more than 30,000 Queenslanders could have lost their lives.
“That keeps me up at night thinking about how I can save people’s lives,” she said.
The total of confirmed cases in Queensland is now 943; 11 people are being treated in intensive care units and 345 have recovered.
A total of 63,552 people have been tested for the disease.
The nine new cases includes one new case in Toowoomba, taking the Darling Downs Health region total to 41.
These 41 cases – which includes patients who have recovered since the health crisis began – have been identified in Toowoomba (32), Oakey (4), Kingaroy (2), Miles (1), Warwick (1) and Chinchilla (1).
The largest number of confirmed cases continues to be in the Metro North Health region (286), followed by Metro South (218), Gold Coast (178) and Sunshine Coast (85).
As at 6:00am on Wednesday, there had been 5956 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Australia, up 112 since 6:00am on Tuesday.
The States with the largest number of cases are NSW (2734) and Victoria (1191).
There have been 50 deaths across Australia.
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