Restrictions Extended To Gold Coast

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young

August 28, 2020

The tightened COVID-19 restrictions announced last weekend have been extended to the Gold Coast after three more cases were confirmed in Queensland on Friday morning.

The new cases – two from Pimpama and one from Forest Lake – are linked to the Queensland Corrections Services Academy cluster and were identified after testing at the Academy was expanded.

Two recruits – a 33-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man from Pimpama – had been carpooling to the Academy and had been in the dining room at the Centre.

The third case is a 33-year-old man who attended a course at the Academy.

There are now 20 active cases in Queensland, including 15 from the two Wacol clusters, which are thought to be linked.

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said there was a real risk the virus could have been spread on the Gold Coast.

The new Gold Coast restrictions will come into force at 8:00am on Saturday.

Gatherings inside homes and in non-organised gatherings without COVID Safe plans will be limited to 10 people.

Aged care homes and disability accommodation providers will also be put into lockdown.

Arrangements with COVID Safe plans can continue as usual.

These are the same restrictions which apply in the Local Government Areas of Brisbane City, Ipswich City, Logan City, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, Moreton Bay, Redland City and Somerset council areas.

In the South Burnett – and the rest of Queensland – gatherings are limited to 30 people if a COVID Safe plan is not in place.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said 21,653 tests had been conducted in the past 24 hours.

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Premier Palaszczuk said “schoolies” had been deemed a high-risk mass event so all organised events would be cancelled.

“So the schoolies that we have come to know over the years will not be able to go ahead in that form,” the Premier said.

However, the Premier said there was nothing wrong with small groups of people booking somewhere close to where they live.

“So long as they abide by those rules and regulations that are set in place for hotel accommodation, then there is nothing to worry about,” she said.

Gathering limits would apply on beaches and streets, and apartments would be required to maintain registers of guests for contact tracing.

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An application by the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association (ICPA) to allow boarders from northern NSW to return home for the school holidays without having to quarantine on their return to Queensland has been refused.

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young met with ICPA representatives on Thursday.

ICPA Queensland president Tammie Irons said it meant children who live outside the “border bubble” won’t be able to go home for the holidays.

“At this point those children will not be allowed to come back to their boarding schools unless they have been quarantined for two weeks. So that’s quite devastating for those families and is going to lead to them having to make a lot of decisions in the next couple of weeks about what boarding school holidays are going to look like for them,” she said.

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Contact Tracing Alerts – Brisbane Youth Detention Centre cluster

Queensland Health released an updated list on Friday.

NB. There are two Toowoomba locations listed on August 16.

Anyone who has been to any of these locations at these times should monitor their health and, if they develop even the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms, get tested.

13 August – Australian Nails, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 11:00am-noon
13 August – Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 11:00am-3:00pm
13 August – The Fig Tree Bakehouse, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – noon to unknown
13 August – Nandos, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – after noon to unknown
14 August – OfficeWorks, Browns Plains – 10:00am-10:10am
14 August – Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza – after 10:00am to before 11:00am
14 August – Ikea, Slacks Creek – 11:00am-2:00pm
14 August – Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth Shopping Centre – 11:15am-11:30am
14 August – Anytime Fitness, Village Square, Browns Plains – 2:20pm-3:30pm
14 August – Bunnings, Browns Plains – 2:30pm-3:00pm
14 August – Aldi, Forest Lake Village Shopping Centre – 4:00pm-4:30pm
14 August – Coles, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 4:00pm-4:30pm
14 August – Forest Lake Tavern – 6:30pm-10:30pm
15 August – K-Mart, Browns Plains Grand Plaza – 9:30am-9:45am
15 August – Anytime Fitness, Village Square Browns Plains – 10:25am-11:35am
15 August – Pimpama Junction Centre, Pimpama – 10:00am-11:50am
15 August – Coomera Westfield – 11:20am-11:25am
16 August – Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth Shopping Centre – 10:00am-10:15am
16 August – Chemist Warehouse, Pimpama City Centre – 8:20am-8:30am
16 August – Pimpama Junction Centre – 12:20am-12:25pm
16 August – Zarraffa’s, Pimpama City – 10:00am to unknown
16 August – The Southern Hotel, Toowoomba – 8:15am to 10:00am
16 August – The Queens Park Markets, East Toowoomba – 10:00am-11:00am
16 August – Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza – 10:30am-11:00am
16 August – 7-11 Service Station, Springfield – 12:10pm-12:15pm
16 August – Anytime Fitness, Village Square Browns Plains – 1:20pm-2:30pm
16 August – The Riverlink Shopping Centre, Ipswich – morning
16 August – The Reject Shop, Ipswich – morning
16 August – Jamaica Blue coffee shop, Ipswich – morning
16 August – Puma Fuel, Wacol – 4:00pm-4:10pm
17 August – Indooroopilly Shopping Centre – 11:00am-1:00pm
17 August – Zarraffa’s, Pimpama City – 6:30am to unknown
17 August – Coles Express, Pimpama City Centre – 6:18am-4:25pm
17 August – Coles, Upper Coomera – 8:00pm-8:10pm
17 August – BUPA Indooroopilly – 11:00am-1:00pm
17 August – Origin Kebabs, Indooroopilly – 11:00am-1:00pm
17 August – Calamvale Central Shopping Centre – 1:30pm-2:00pm
17 August – Richlands Magistrates Courthouse – 12:15pm-12:30pm
17 August – Bendigo Bank, Elizabeth St Shopping Centre, Acacia Ridge – 12:45pm-12:55pm
17 August – Munch Inn Cafe, Elizabeth St Shopping Centre, Acacia Ridge – 1:00pm-1:10pm
17 August – Greenbank Takeaway – 6:30pm-6:40pm
17 August – Costco Bundamba Self-Service fuel station – afternoon
18 August – BCF Greenslopes – 12:30pm-1:00pm
18 August – Spotlight, Indooroopilly – 9:00am-11:00am
18 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 3:50pm to unknown
18 August – The Rock and Roll Butcher, Logan Road, Greenslopes – 1:00pm to unknown
18 August – Chemist Warehouse (Waratah Drive) Crestmead – afternoon
18 August – Uncle Bill’s Takeaway, Brassall – 5:45pm-6:15pm
18 August – United Fuels, Springfield – 6:05pm-6:12pm
18 August – BP Wacol (cnr Boundary & Progress Rds) – evening
19 August – 12 RND Fitness, Birkdale – 8:00am-9:30am
19 August – Woolworths, Browns Plains Grand Plaza – 9:30am to unknown
19 August – The Jam Pantry, Greenslopes – 10:30am-11:45am
19 August – OfficeWorks, Ipswich – 11:00am-11:10am
19 August – The Red Cross Op Shop, Sherwood Rd, Sherwood – 12:30pm-1:00pm
19 August – Transport & Main Roads Service Centre, Sherwood – 12:30pm-1:00pm
19 August – Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre – 1:00pm-3:00pm
19 August – Indooroopilly Shopping Centre – 1:00pm-4:00pm
19 August – Myer, Indooroopilly – 1:00pm-4:00pm
19 August – David Jones, Indooroopilly – 1:00pm-4:00pm
19 August – Touch Of Indian, Indooroopilly – 1:00pm-4:00pm
19 August – Sweets From Heaven, Indooroopilly – 1:00pm-4:00pm
19 August – Bras’n’Things, Westfield Carindale – 1:00pm-3:00pm
19 August – Ghanda clothing, Westfield Carindale – 1:00pm-3:00pm
19 August – Myer, Westfield Carindale – 1:00pm-3:00pm
19 August – Newsagent, Sherwood Rd, Sherwood – 1:10pm-1:20pm
19 August – Baskin Robbins, Camp Hill Market Place – 5:30pm-5:40pm
19 August – Pho Inn, Camp Hill Market Place – 5:30pm-5:40pm
19 August – 7-11 Springfield – 7:30pm-7:35pm
19 August – Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department – 11:00pm-6:19am
19 August – Zarraffa’s, Pimpama City – 6:30am to unknown
20 August – Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth Shopping Centre – 10:00am-10:15am
20 August – USQ Campus Cafe, Springfield – 12:05pm-12:13pm
20 August – Coles, Forest Lake – 3:15pm-4:00pm
21 August – Woolworths, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 10:30am-10:45am
21 August – The Chop Shop Butcher, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 10:45am-11:15am
21 August – Best & Less, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 10:45am-11:15am
21 August – The Orion Nail Bar, Springfield – 4:15pm-5:00pm
21 August – Sia’s Takeaway, Kingston Rd, Slacks Creek – 11:30am-11:45am
21 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 7:00am to unknown
21 August – Coles Express, Pimpama City Centre – 9:00pm to unknown
21 August – Southern Bay Cyclones rugby union game – 8:00pm-10:00pm
21 August – Graceville Netball Courts & Canteen, Faulkner Park, Graceville – 8:00am-10:15am
22 August – The Pet Barn, Browns Plains – 10:30am-10:45am
22 August – Bunnings, Browns Plains – 10:45am-11:15am
22 August – The Good Guys, Browns Plains – 11:15am-11:35am
22 August – United Service Station, Pimpama – 4:00pm-4:20pm
22 August – McDonald’s, Pimpama – 8:30am-9:30am
22 August – Bunnings, Oxenford – Noon to 12:05pm
22 August – Coles, Pimpama City – 1:00pm-2:00pm
22 August – Graceville Netball Courts & Canteen, Faulkner Park, Graceville – 1:00pm-3:00pm
22 August – Kmart, Indooroopilly Shopping Centre – 3:15pm-4:45pm
23 August – Coles, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 5:00pm-5:15pm
23 August – Coles, Pimpama City – 4:10pm-4:20pm
23 August – IGA, Coomera – 2:10pm-2:20pm
23 August – Coles, Pimpama City – 4:05pm-4:20pm
24 August – The Good Guys, Oxley – 9:00am-9:45am
24 August – Woolworths, The Station, Oxley – 10:00am-10:30am
24 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 4:20pm-4:30pm
24 August – Coomera Westfield, Coomera Town Centre – 5:30pm-6:00pm
25 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 6:40am-6:45am
25 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 4:20pm-4:30pm
26 August – Coomera Westfield, Coomera Town Centre – 9:30am-10:25am
26 August – Woolworths, Pimpama Junction – 10:40am-10:50am
26 August – Kmart, Oxenford – 11:00am-11:10am
26 August – Bunnings, Oxenford – 11:20am-11:50am
26 August – Woolworths, Pimpama Junction – noon to 12:15pm
26 August – Zazar’s Kebabs, Pimpama – 12:15pm-12:25pm
26 August – Logan Motorway BP Centre & McDonald’s, Larapinta – 5:45pm-5:50pm
26 August – Gold Coast University Hospital fever clinic, Southport – 7:00pm-7:20pm
27 August – Princess Alexandra Hospital fever clinic, Woolloongabba – 12:40pm-12:55pm
27 August – PriceLine Pharmacy, Forest Lake – 9:00am-9:10am
27 August – Coles, Forest Lake Shopping Centre – 9:15am-9:30am