August 11, 2021
Four more cases of COVID-19 – all linked to the Indooroopilly cluster – were announced on Wednesday morning.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said all four cases were already in isolation and posed no risk to the community.
The Indooroopilly cluster has now grown to 120 cases.
The latest cases are all linked to Brisbane schools previously identified as contact tracing locations.
The Premier also announced the snap Cairns lockdown would end at 4:00pm on Wednesday, but mask restrictions would continue.
Mask restrictions in the 11 south-east Queensland council areas will also continue until at least 4:00pm on August 22.
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The Health Services Union has condemned the alleged assault of a COVID tester in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon.
The 31-year-old woman was allegedly punched by an unmasked man about 4:00pm.
Prior to the assault, the man had been filming the tester and making abusive comments about vaccination.
Union secretary Gerard Hayes said the incident was horrifying.
“Assaulting people working on the frontline of the pandemic is beneath contempt,” Mr Hayes said.
“What sort of lowlife punches someone who is already risking their own health to help the public through an unprecedented health crisis?”
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 344 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday morning and two more deaths, including a man in his 30s.
The latest deaths take the toll from the current Delta outbreak in NSW to eight.
There have now been 6149 locally acquired cases in NSW since June 16.
