Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young is struggling to understand how a high school student in Brisbane’s western suburbs has tested positive for COVID-19.
The 17-year-old Indooroopilly State High School student is one of two new COVID-19 cases recorded in the state on Friday.
The second case was a person in hotel quarantine who contracted the virus overseas.
The state has 43 active cases,with 1620 COVID-19 tests conducted in the past 24 hours and 148 people currently in home quarantine.
“I’m struggling to understand how she acquired it,” Dr Young said at a press conference on Friday morning.
“We’ll have to wait until we get whole genome sequencing results back later today to be able to work out from where she’s got this.
“We do know that we have had 13 incursions of the virus into Queensland over the last six weeks,and we know that in any particular outbreak,someone can get infected,not have symptoms and then spread the virus to someone else,which is why it’s critically important that we all remain very,very cautious until the vast majority of people have been able to be vaccinated.”
Dr Young urged people to continue to wear masks and maintain social distancing.
It comes aftermask mandates,which were due to be lifted on Friday,were extended for 11 south-east Queensland local government areas,including Brisbane.