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Queensland\u2019s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 23, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queensland’s COVID-19 tally of confirmed cases rose by two overnight, taking the State’s total to 1026 since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n

There are no new cases in the Darling Downs Health region.<\/p>\n

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said 955 of the 1026 confirmed cases had recently travelled overseas or had close contact with a confirmed case, such as their partner or flatmate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve continued to see limited community transmission in Queensland, with 42 cases where we don\u2019t know the source of infection,\u201d Dr Young said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that numbers are staying very low this week – with only eight cases recorded so far – and we want to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cStay home as much as possible and stay in (your) suburb when undertaking essential activities such as going to the supermarket or exercising.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Young said a total of 92,699 tests for COVID-19 has been undertaken in Queensland, with 2539 tests done during the previous day.<\/p>\n

Most Queenslanders who have contracted COVID-19 have experienced mild symptoms.<\/p>\n

Currently, 20 of the 282 active confirmed cases are in hospital, with seven people in intensive care.<\/p>\n

The remainder are recovering at home.<\/p>\n

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Police are maintaining a strong presence at Queensland borders to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, with more than 100,000 vehicles intercepted during the first four weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police from Mt Isa have shared vision of plagues of gidgee bugs crawling over trailers and crunching under police cars.<\/p>\n

To stay warm at night during patrols, officers from Camooweal started a fire pit and were joined by their Northern Territory counterparts along with Australian Federal Police and Australian Defence Force personnel.<\/p>\n

The last time restrictions were introduced between the Queensland-NSW border was in 1919 when a barbed-wire fence was built at Coolangatta to prevent the spread of Spanish Flu.<\/p>\n