ALL non-essential visits to hospitals in the Greater Brisbane area, including Redlands and Logan are banned after a doctor tested positive to COVID-19 after treating two patients at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Queensland Health has also announced that all non-essential visits to hospitals, residential aged care facilities, disability accommodation services and correctional facilities will cease.
This will be effective from noon today and will be reviewed Tuesday.
Anyone attending these facilities in Greater Brisbane, including staff, must wear a mask.
People will still be able to visit their loved ones who are at end of life.
Also anyone who has been in the below locations during the relevant times must home quarantine immediately.
Locations:
Morning After Cafe, corner of Vulture and Cambridge Sts, West End on Thursday 11 March 2021 from 14:00 - 15:15.
Corporate Box Gym, East Brisbane, 368A Logan Road Greenslopes Thursday 11 March 2021 17:45 - 19:00.
Stones Corner Hotel, 346 Logan Road Stones Corner Thursday 11 March 2021 19:00 - 19:45
People who went to the McDonalds drive through at 235 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo on Thursday 11 March 2021 03:10 - 03:20 should monitor their health although the venue is deemed low risk.
Queensland Health staff are contacting people based on details provided by the venues.
All non-essential visits are not allowed.
If you must attend PA Hospital, you will be required to wear a mask. The Emergency Department is open, but if you are able to receive care at a nearby hospital or at a GP, please do so.
Staff will wear masks at all times. Patients will be required to wear masks at all times unless it is not clinically appropriate. Non-urgent outpatient bookings and elective surgery will be postponed.
The doctor had contact with two COVID-19 patients in the early hours of March 10.
The person was infectious while in the community on the 11th and contact tracing is underway.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said fragments of SARS-CoV-2 also had been detected at the Millbank (Bundaberg) and Gibson Island (Brisbane South) wastewater treatment plants.
"Anyone with symptoms, no matter how mild, should come forward and get tested," she said.
"Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, diarrhoea, nausea or vomiting, and loss of taste or smell.
"It is very important people with symptoms come forward right away and get tested. We can't be complacent. We're still in this pandemic.
"It is critical we detect any cases that we may not be aware of as quickly as possible through our testing system, to contain any potential spread.
"We are concerned by the new variants that are emerging overseas that are more contagious than previous variants we have seen in Queensland."
