Mamma’s Italian Restaurant at Redcliffe,where the infected 26-year-old spent three hours last Sunday afternoon.Credit:Google Maps
But that is separate to the advice issued to those who attended several locations visited by the 26-year-old landscaper.
Authorities have urged those who were atMamma’s Italian Restaurantin Redcliffe at the same time as him last Sunday,March 21,to isolate for 14 days and get tested.
People who visited Carindale Shopping Centre when he was there last Saturday,March 20,were asked to isolate until they got a negative result.
A full list of contact-tracing locationsis on the Queensland Health website.
“People shouldn’t think just because they haven’t been to one of the venues of concern,they haven’t got it,” Dr Young warned.
“They need to come forward – anyone,anywhere in Brisbane or Moreton Bay regional councils who is unwell with any symptoms,that’s really important.”
Ms Palaszczuk said there would not be any lockdowns for the time being,but she urged everyone to do the right thing.
“The next two days are going to be critical for us,” she said. “If everyone keeps up their testing,and the contact tracing,we are comfortable where we are.”
Masks are still not officially mandatory,however some venues have made them compulsory as a result of the new cases.
The Queensland Performing Arts Centre announced on Saturday it would require all guests to wear masks while inside its buildings.
Suncorp Stadium,meanwhile,issued a call for all fans attending the NRL match between the Brisbane Broncos and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon to consider wearing masks,although it stopped short of making them mandatory.
The extra cases on Saturday bring the state’s total to 71,almost all of whom were being housed in state hospitals while infectious.
The Premier said she had written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to slash from 1300 to 650 the number of international arrivals Queensland is required to accept.
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“[On Friday night] I also wrote to the Prime Minister as well,asking for the next two weeks to halve the number of our international overseas arrivals,” the Premier said.
“We’re almost at the capacity of our hospitals that we were at the peak of the pandemic. That is not to say our hospitals cannot cope – they will be able to cope – but this large influx that we are seeing,and the high rate of people coming back,returned travellers,have been positive.”
Earlier on Saturday,Mr Morrison said he hoped Queensland would avoid another lockdown,saying he was confident in health authorities’ ability to get ahead of any community transmission.
“The economic recovery we’re seeing in Australia now is leading the world,and we want to keep that happening,” Mr Morrison said. “We don’t want to prevent that from happening by any possible disproportional or over-reaction response.
“The Queensland government has got this. They’ve got a strong tracing system,they’ve got a very strong public health system there in Queensland,I have a lot of faith in that.”
Despite the relatively relaxed response within Queensland to the current outbreak compared to previous ones,other states have moved to restrict travellers from Queensland.
WA on Saturdayannounced Queensland travellers would have to get tested and quarantine until they got a negative result,while Brisbane Lions players,staff and fans in Melbourne for an AFL match were amongmore than 15,000 people in Victoria ordered to get tested in the wake of the Queensland cases.