No handshakes, high-fives or hugs: Annastacia Palaszczuk urges Queenslanders to be extra cautious as state records its first new Covid case in weeks
- Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged Queenslanders to be cautious after covid case
- Man in north Brisbane tested positive on Thursday but has been in community
- Premier Palaszczuk says people must stop shaking hands and hugging
Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged Queenslanders to be extra-cautious after the state reported a local case of coronavirus on Friday morning.
A man tested positive for coronavirus in northern Brisbane and was in the community while infectious for a week.
The Queensland Premier has ordered a lockdown of the city’s hospitals, aged care facilities, prisons and disability services from 12pm to prevent the virus spreading.
She said residents need to get back to social distancing and has even gone as far as discouraging hand shaking and hugs.
‘People are not social distancing. We really need people to social distance and the other thing that’s coming back is everyone is doing hand shakes again,’ Premier Palaszczuk told the media in a press conference on Friday.
‘Please, we are still in the midst of a pandemic. Now is not the time to break our social distancing, our good hand hygiene and the hand shakes.’
Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged Queenslanders to be extra-cautious after the state reported a local case of coronavirus on Friday morning
The Queensland Premier has ordered a lockdown of the city’s hospitals, aged care facilities, prisons and disability services from 12pm to prevent the virus spreading
Premier Palaszczuk says the 26-year-old man lives in Stafford and tested positive on Thursday, but he’s been infectious in the community since last Friday.
‘We wanted to let the public know as soon as possible,’ Ms Palaszczuk told reporters.
‘It is absolutely imperative over the next few days if you are sick and unwell to and go and get tested, it is absolutely critical.’
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the man visited a number of venues in the past week, including the Carindale Shopping Centre and a Baskin-Robbins outlet at Everton Park on March 20
The next day he visited a supermarket and an Italian restaurant in Newstead.
On March 22 he went to work in Paddington, where he’s landscaper, and visited a Guzman y Gomez drive-through.
The man may be linked to an earlier case in a doctor who tested positive at Princess Alexandra Hospital two weeks ago, but test results are not yet ready
The infectious man attended the Bunnings in Stafford at 1pm on March 22
‘Anyone who’s been to any of these venues in those specific time frames, I want you to come forward and get tested whether or not you’ve got symptoms, and to remain in isolation until you get a negative result,’ Dr Young said.
The man may be linked to an earlier case in a doctor who tested positive at Princess Alexandra Hospital two weeks ago, but test results are not yet ready.
The female doctor had worked a shift at the hospital and visited four venues in the city’s south the previous day.
Dr Young said at that time the number of people using check-in apps had helped contact-tracers quickly track down every person who had come into contact with the doctor.
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