{"id":281315,"date":"2020-10-15T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=281315"},"modified":"2020-10-15T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:04:34","slug":"health-alert-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/10\/15\/health-alert-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Alert Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Queensland Health expanded its public health alert on Thursday after a Townsville woman tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, aged in her 30s, had been in Victoria for three days prior to her positive result.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said while the woman may have contracted COVID-19 in Melbourne, it was necessary to treat the case with an abundance of caution.<\/p>\n<p>Locations the woman visited in Brisbane and Cairns are currently deemed very low risk.<\/p>\n<p>However, anyone who has been to these venues at these dates and times should monitor their health and if they develop any COVID-19 symptoms, even mild, get tested and isolate until they receive their test result.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 28<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 ICON Cancer Care, Hyde Park, Townsville &#8211; 4:00pm-5:00pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 29<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Mater Day Surgery, Hyde Park, Townsville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 30<\/strong> &#8211; ICON Cancer Care, Hyde Park, Townsville &#8211; 9:00am to 9:30am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 30<\/strong> &#8211; NQ Vascular, Pimlico, Townsville &#8211; 1:00pm-2:00pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 3<\/strong> &#8211; Flight QF2302 &#8211; Townville to Cairns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 3<\/strong> &#8211; Tha Fish in Cairns &#8211; 5:45pm to 8:30pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 6<\/strong> &#8211; Flight VA782 &#8211; Cairns to Brisbane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 6<\/strong> &#8211; Vivo in Palm Cove &#8211; 5:15pm to 9:00pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 6<\/strong> &#8211; Georges Paragon Restaurant, Brisbane &#8211; from 7.30pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The woman then travelled on flight QF1543 from Brisbane to Canberra before changing at Canberra Airport to Flight QF2149 to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Queensland Health reported one new case of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the State\u2019s total since the pandemic began to 1162.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0overseas-acquired\u00a0case\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0man aged 40-49 years\u00a0and\u00a0was\u00a0detected in hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two active cases in Queensland, including one patient in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>During the past 24 hours,\u00a05280\u00a0tests were performed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland Health expanded its public health alert on Thursday after a Townsville woman tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":254316,"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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