{"id":273340,"date":"2020-08-22T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=273340"},"modified":"2020-08-22T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:12:36","slug":"new-covid-19-rules-start-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/08\/22\/new-covid-19-rules-start-now\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Rules Start Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176862\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/palaszczuk-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176862\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/palaszczuk-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/palaszczuk-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/palaszczuk-200-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (Photo: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 22, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New COVID-19 restrictions have been imposed immediately in eight council areas in south-east Queensland following the confirmation of community transmission in the Ipswich area.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed on Saturday morning there had been six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 linked to the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre at Wacol.<\/p>\n<p>This brings to seven the number of cases linked to the centre following the confirmation earlier this week that a 77-year-old woman who worked there had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said extensive contract tracing was under way and public health alerts would be issued if necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The seven cases so far are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two women who work at the Youth Detention Centre. They live at Bundamba and Forest Lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A Marsden man who worked at the centre and became sick about the same time as the initial case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A Carindale man at the centre, also employed by QBuild. He has also been completing work at a Springwood school. His wife has also tested positive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A North Ipswich man who works at a disability accommodation service. A relative of this man who was in Ipswich Hospital has also tested positive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Testing of the 127 detainees and more than 500 staff at the centre is continuing; it has been reported that 56 results have so far come back negative.<\/p>\n<p>No youths have tested positive so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Young said Queensland Health was also contact tracing youths who had been in the centre and released over the last several weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hospital Emergency Department staff had also been instructed to use Personal Protective Equipment for every patient they see.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment we don&#8217;t know who may have the infection because it&#8217;s out there in the community. We clearly have got community spread,&#8221; Dr Young said.<\/p>\n<p>She said there was very little influenza around, so if someone in the Brisbane or Ipswich areas had symptoms it was more likely to be COVID-19 than the flu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We are concerned about this cluster because people have been out and about in the community,&#8221; Premier Palaszczuk said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The restrictions &#8211; effective immediately &#8211; affect the Local Government Areas of Brisbane City, Ipswich City, Logan City, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, Moreton Bay, Redland City and Somerset council areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gatherings in your home will be reduced to 10 people,&#8221; the Premier said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gatherings outside, for example in parks, will be limited to 10 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Premier said that in the rest of Queensland, a limit of 30 people was now in place for home gatherings and in outside areas such as parks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aged care homes and disability accommodation providers in the eight Council areas would also go into lockdown immediately, ie. no visitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we need are Queenslanders to realise &#8211; especially in south-east Queensland &#8211; is that if you have any symptoms whatsoever, we need you to get tested now,&#8221; the Premier said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be standing up additional fever clinics in south-east Queensland &#8230; if you are sick, if you have any symptoms, get tested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very important time, especially over the next couple of days and, of course, we do expect that there could be even more cases linked to this cluster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not know those until further results come in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Premier\u00a0urged people in affected suburbs to take extra precautions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very important that cafes and restaurants have their COVID Safe plans in place,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The key is absolutely social distancing. This weekend, if you are going to a shopping centre and there is no social distancing, you should leave immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social distancing is our biggest weapon against this disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Premier Palaszczuk said she wanted to assure people the children were being well looked after at the Youth Detention Centre.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Queensland has recorded a total of nine new COVID-19 cases since Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As well as the six cases linked to the Youth Detention Centre, three more cases were detected on cargo ships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not worried about the crew members on the ships because they are being taken care of,&#8221; the Premier said.<\/p>\n<p>Two sailors from a ship off Mackay will be flown to Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The third case was detected on a ship off Townsville where two previous cases were detected.\u00a0 These three people are in Townsville Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interstate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victoria has\u00a0recorded 182 new cases and 13 more deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NSW has recorded\u00a0nine new cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>External link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qld.gov.au\/health\/conditions\/health-alerts\/coronavirus-covid-19\/current-status\/urgent-covid-19-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queensland Health update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New COVID-19 restrictions have been imposed immediately in eight council areas in south-east Queensland following the confirmation of community transmission in the Ipswich area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":176863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1455,172,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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