Ms D’Ath said some family members were unwell.
“We don’t know if it’s COVID;we have to treat it as if it is,” she said.
“In light of these developments,in Logan and on the Gold Coast,we encourage anyone in these LGAs[local government areas] to get tested and isolate until they receive their results.”
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said a Gold Coast school was closed after children boasted about travelling to and from Melbourne.Credit:Matt Dennien
Earlier,Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said all students at the school would need to quarantine for 14 days if the two children were not tested.
Meanwhile,a 46-year-old truck driver from Windaroo in Logan,whose case was unrelated to a truckie who sparked a contact tracing alert on Wednesday,was potentially infectious on the Gold Coast from August 28 to September 1.
Ms Palaszczuk said the case of the truck driver,who tested positive in Pimpama on the Gold Coast on August 27 during weekly surveillance testing,was under investigation.
“[He] had travelled from Sydney,he is currently back in New South Wales,” she said.
Ms D’Ath said Queensland Health was “seeking to locate” the truck driver so authorities could find out where he had been in Queensland.
“We will,of course,put up any exposure sites once we make contact with this gentleman,” she said.
“We ask people,especially on the Gold Coast area,to be checking the website regularly.”
On Thursday afternoon,Ms D’Ath said the truck driver was “on the road still in New South Wales” and his household members were being tested urgently.
The latest truck driver’s case comes after health authorities sent out an alert on Wednesday afternoon for contact tracing sites on Brisbane’s south,Ipswich and Goondiwindi after a differentNSW truck driver tested positive to the virus and visited several locations while infectious on Thursday,August 26,including service stations.
That case was recorded against NSW’s tally as he was from NSW and was tested in the southern state.
Ms Palaszczuk also announced the Cairns Convention Centre would be the state’s next mass vaccination hub,with about 1500 people able to be vaccinated every day over four long weekends starting on September 10.
Over the past 72 hours,598 workers at meatworks and food distribution hubs have also been jabbed in a vaccination “blitz”.
Queensland also recorded an overseas acquired case of COVID,detected in hotel quarantine,bringing the state’s total to 19 active cases.