Ms Palaszczuk said the situation in NSW would be monitored over coming days,adding that the state would “not hesitate to take strong action”.
“This is the Delta strain - you’ve seen how quickly it has escalated in New South Wales,over a period of about 10 days,” she said.
The Four Points by Sheraton hotel on Mary Street in Brisbane CBD.Credit:Internet
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the infected person linked to the Portuguese restaurant was in isolation,while authorities continued to contact trace workers linked to the miner.
There was also an overseas case detected in hotel quarantine.
“She[the mine worker] was only out in the community for one day,she was with her family,and they started a road trip but immediately came back,” she said.
“We’ve got those 170 miners throughout the state that we’re working with today,and have been over the weekend.
“We’ve got those five flights that that Virgin crew member was positive on – two of them flew into Queensland,one Gold Coast,one Brisbane.
“Then we’ve got the flight that the miner came back on,another Virgin flight,on Friday night into Brisbane airport,that we’re contact tracing ... we’ve got enormous risks throughout our state.”
Queensland Health authorities on Sunday confirmed two people diagnosed with COVID-19 – a cleaner who worked at the Brisbane Airport DFO and the CBD’s police watchhouse,and her partner,who works on the Sunshine Coast – spent a week in the community and were believed to be linked to the Four Points hotel quarantine leak.
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On Sunday,four new cases were reported in the Northern Territory linked to a fly-in fly-out worker from the Newmont Corporations Granites gold mine,550 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs,who tested positive to COVID-19 on Saturday after becoming infected in a Queensland hotel quarantine breach.
When asked on Monday why health authorities had ordered domestic and international travellers to isolate in the same hotel quarantine facility,Dr Young said “we don’t,usually”.
“But we’ve been under a lot of pressure in our hotels,” she said.
“We’ve just had so many continuing people from overseas.
“And then we’ve had these domestic incidents,so it’s just the pressure that’s led to this having to happen.”