No Vax Mandate For Fireys
Commissioner Greg Leach confirmed on Wednesday Queensland Fire and Emergency Services paid staff will not have to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Commissioner Greg Leach confirmed on Wednesday Queensland Fire and Emergency Services paid staff will not have to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
More than 1000 people in the South Burnett and Cherbourg areas have officially contracted COVID-19 since the Queensland borders re-opened on December 13.
LNP Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien has praised the behaviour of anti-vaccination mandate protesters during the recent “Convoy to Canberra”.
The suspension of school camps until at least March 4 is having a devastating effect on an often overlooked industry sector, the LNP has warned.
Wondai residents have been reminded by Darling Downs Health that a COVID-19 vaccination clinic is running this week at Wondai Hospital.
Corrective Services Commissioner Paul Stewart has praised prison staff who have been dealing with heightened tensions in Queensland jails due to COVID-19 restrictions while at the same working hard to mitigate health risks.
The Darling Downs Health region – which includes all the South Burnett and Cherbourg – is yet to reach its peak of the latest COVID-19 wave.
Darling Downs Health has announced a change to the COVID-19 testing hours at Kingaroy Hospital.
Queenslanders no longer have to use the COVID-19 check-in app, except where mandatory vaccinations are required.
The South Burnett’s official COVID-19 tally of confirmed cases since the pandemic began has now broken the 700 barrier.
The COVID pandemic has led to another burst of major event postponements or cancellations.
A free, walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic will be held in Wondai later this month.
The Queensland death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 225, with 16 more people added to the tally by Queensland Health on Wednesday morning.
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) – a statutory body which invests farmer levies in research – has moved all its planned grower events online due to COVID.
There have now been more than 600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 recorded in the South Burnett Regional Council area during the past month.
Cherbourg State School has been included in a “Back-to-School vaccination blitz” announced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Friday.
Queensland passed two COVID-19 milestones on Friday: it’s exactly two years since the first case of the “novel coronavirus” was detected in the State; the second is more tragic – the most deaths recorded in a 24-hour period.
COVID-19 testing will return to Kingaroy Hospital from Wednesday (January 26).
Surveys of members by two unions have painted a devastating picture of life inside aged care facilities in Queensland trying to cope with outbreaks of Omicron.
Queensland’s death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 85 following the announcement of the latest 13 deaths on Friday morning.