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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (Photo: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 8, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But Queensland had only just “begun this journey”.<\/p>\n

“We have a good story in Queensland at the moment, so let’s keep it up,” Ms Palaszczuk said.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“There is no talk of easing restrictions at this stage. Everybody just needs to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

“We have got to flatten that curve so our hospitals can cope.”<\/p>\n

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. <\/strong><\/p>\n

“That keeps me up at night thinking about how I can save people’s lives,” she said.<\/p>\n

The total of confirmed cases in Queensland is now 943; 11 people are being treated in intensive care units and 345 have recovered.<\/p>\n

A total of 63,552 people have been tested for the disease.<\/p>\n

The nine new cases includes one new case in Toowoomba, taking the Darling Downs Health region total to 41.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

As at 6:00am on Wednesday, there had been 5956 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Australia, up 112 since 6:00am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The States with the largest number of cases are NSW (2734) and Victoria (1191).<\/p>\n

There have been 50 deaths across Australia.<\/p>\n

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