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

February 4, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone who has visited the Greater Melbourne area from January 29 has been urged to come forward and get tested for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a worker at a quarantine hotel in Melbourne had tested positive and had been out in the community when probably infectious.<\/p>\n

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said it was being treated as the worker being infectious from January 29.<\/p>\n

“I am asking that anyone who has been in Greater Melbourne since January 29 onwards needs to come forward immediately and get themselves tested – whether or not they’ve got symptoms – and isolate until they get a negative result,” Dr Young said.<\/p>\n

As well, anyone who has been in any of the venues that Victorian health authorities have listed as a concern on their website<\/a> should get tested and then quarantine for 14 days, even if they get a negative result.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a precaution, Queensland Health is also restricting visitors who have been in Greater Melbourne from January 29 onwards from vulnerable facilities including aged care, hospitals, disability accommodation and corrective services.<\/p>\n

Victoria also announced on Wednesday a case of transmission within another quarantine hotel.<\/p>\n

Dr Young said six people from the same hotel had entered Queensland during the period when there was potential transmission within that site.<\/p>\n

“We’re chasing those six people up (now) and testing them,” Dr Young said.<\/p>\n

Dr Young said there was\u00a0no decision to close the border but she asked Queenslanders to reconsider travel to Victoria.<\/p>\n