Three cases all same family, one a close contact

Dr Young said the four new cases mean that we do not have unknown transmission happening in Queensland today.

“We have now had over 101 days of infectious people out in our community in the last 14 days,” Dr Young said.

“So that means there has been those 101 opportunities for people to get infected, so we know that we will see more cases. It is critical that people, if you have any symptoms at all, don’t think it is anything else. Because it is most likely to be COVID-19.”

Three of the new cases all live in the same household, with two other confirmed cases.

“It is not surprising that has occurred, and that is why it is so important that household gatherings cannot be more than 10 people. We know that at this stage of an outbreak it is household transmission and transmission from one household to another household that is the key trigger for increased cases.

“We saw that very, very clearly down in Victoria.

“So that limit of 10 people in a household that is all the people in that household, including the people in the household and any visitors, although of course if you normally have more than 10 people, of course those people can continue to live there, but you cannot have more than 10 people if that means visitors coming in.”

Dr Young said the contact tracers are getting on top of where those people work and to see if there are any more people who need to go into quarantine.

“The fourth case is a person who was in close contact with a known case, but not in a household.

“This was at a gathering that this person was out. Now, we do know they attend the Staines Memorial College, they attend that school and that school has alerted other students and families about the case and indeed it is associated with a church, so that people were told not to attend.

“We are going to expect to see more cases like this where people have been known contacts.”