Queensland Acting Premier Steven Miles and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young during a COVID-19 update on Tuesday.

Queensland Acting Premier Steven Miles and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young during a COVID-19 update on Tuesday.Credit:Matt Dennien

She immediately had a COVID test,which returned a negative result.

According to Victorian rules,anyone who has been at a tier one exposure site must get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.

But when asked if the woman was allowed to go “out and about”,Dr Young said she did not have all the information yet.

“She’s been extraordinarily helpful in going through all of those exposure sites,” Dr Young said.

The woman went to Sunshine Plaza at the Sunshine Coast on July 15 from 3.55pm-4.15pm and visited the Universal Store,and Rice Boi restaurant at Mooloolaba from 6.45pm-8pm.

The Young&Jackson pub in Melbourne has been listed as a tier one exposure site,with people required to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.

The Young& Jackson pub in Melbourne has been listed as a tier one exposure site,with people required to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.Credit:Jason South

On July 16,she travelled via Uber at 12.50pm to Maroochydore station and caught the 615 bus to Landsborough station at 1.11pm,before travelling to Eagle Junction and then caught the Airtrain to Brisbane Airport at 3.29pm.

She caught Virgin flight VA791 from Brisbane to Cairns,where a relative picked her up and drove her home to Mareeba,where she was isolating until getting tested at the Atherton fever clinic at 10.30am on July 18,returning a positive result on Monday night.

The woman experienced some symptoms and was wearing a mask,as per Queensland restrictions.

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Dr Young urged anyone who was at the Rice Boi restaurant to get tested immediately and said she was also worried about the woman’s household contacts in Maroochydore and Mareeba.

“The most important one,from my point of view,is the Rice Boi restaurant at The Wharf at Mooloolaba,” she said.

“I am concerned,of course I am concerned,we’ll just have to see how it flows out over the next few days.”

Dr Young said Queenslanders in South Australia,which later announced a lockdown,should consider coming home.

“Please just holiday in Queensland because we don’t know where the next case might be,” she said.

Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said officers stopped163 heavy vehicles at the Queensland border in the past 24 hours,with 46 drivers not holding the correct passes to enter the state,and 10 of those having been in a hotspot.

Queensland also recorded two overseas acquired cases in hotel quarantine.

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