{"id":292410,"date":"2021-01-22T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=292410"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:58:50","slug":"brisbane-restrictions-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/01\/22\/brisbane-restrictions-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Restrictions Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 22, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 restrictions in the Greater Brisbane area &#8211; introduced after a hotel cleaner tested positive to a highly contagious strain of coronavirus &#8211; eased at 1:00am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said masks would continue to be recommended for public transport and places where social distancing could not be achieved but would no longer be mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses (including cafes and restaurants) can return to having one customer for every two square metres; weddings can have 200 guests; people can stand and drink in licensed premises; and dancing can return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health Minister Yvette D\u2019Ath said that during the latest alert:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>103,549 people in Queensland came forward for testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>743 close contacts were identified and managed, with 700 tested so far; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>38 overseas-acquired cases of COVID-19 were detected among returned travellers in hotel quarantine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank all Queenslanders for rising to the challenge this latest strain has posed,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, we\u2019re continuing to encourage anyone with symptoms to come forward for testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113791\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jeannette-young-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113791\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jeannette-young-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jeannette-young-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/jeannette-young-200-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queensland\u2019s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been detected in sewage at four more sites in Queensland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said viral fragments had been detected at wastewater treatment plants at Mackay South, Goodna, Wacol and Carole Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this does not mean we have new cases of COVID-19 in these communities, we are treating these detections seriously,\u201d Dr Young said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA positive sewage result means that someone who has been infected was shedding the virus. Infected people can shed viral fragments and that shedding can happen for several weeks after the person is no longer infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The samples from Goodna, Wacol and Carole Park were collected last week and the sample from Mackay South was taken this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to urge anyone who feels unwell in these communities to get tested and isolate,\u201d Dr Young said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSymptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, diarrhoea, nausea or vomiting, and loss of taste or smell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a case we are not yet aware of, it is critical we detect it through our testing mechanisms as quickly as possible to contain any potential spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 restrictions in the Greater Brisbane area &#8211; introduced after a hotel cleaner tested positive to a highly contagious strain of coronavirus &#8211; eased at 1:00am on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":292028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1455,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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