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More coronavirus cases linked to Brisbane Youth Detention Centre abc.net.au/news/2020-08-2…
Briefing on youth detention center (YDC) #COVID19 cluster
📺1st case was confirmed (not false +)
📺more positives produced - 6 additional cases (n=7)
📺3 extra POS from shio crews - unrelated
📺people have been out and about from YDC cluster
📺gatherings i him reduced to 10ppl
📺10 also in outside gatherings - Brisbane, Ipspwich, Logan etc
📺concern for community spread
📺ANY SYMPTOMS WHATEVER - please get tested now!
📺new fever clinics in south east Qld to be stood up
📺very important time over next few days
📺plans in place; "been plannig for this"
📺aged care homes already being locked down in those areas of interest
📺Please listen to the messaging and to the Chief Health Officer (CHO; Dr Young)
📺Key is physical distancing-stay clear of place where its not happening this weekend
📺contact tracing ongoing, (15min = close contact of an infected person), likely to get alerts and warning as place of concern are identified
📺one case worked in a school (partner also tested POS-another generation)
📺one in Ipswich hospital
📺none of the youth's testing has come back positive thus far
📺500 workers been tested-working through them
📺speed is of the essence
📺gatherings in the key sububrbs, only in groups of 10 own homes in greater Brisbane area (30 outside that)
📺no visitors to aged care facilities or disability accommodation facilities in this area
📺"PPE for every single patient they see" in EDs
📺Ipswich hospital to use PPE throughout "until we get on top of this"
📺if out and about, stay distant, or maybe this is the weekend to stay at home
📺hand hygiene
📺if sick, stay home, isolate yourself, get tested (check the website for clinics see health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/…
📺10 people limit for *any* venue without a #COVIDsafe plan
📺"9,447 tested in last 24h but we need to test more over this weekend"
📺More links to fever clinics health.qld.gov.au/cq/covid-19/fe…
📺Qld emergency disaster group - representing all the key response groups - is very experienced in managing disasters
23AUG2020 QLD detection centre cluster UPDATE
📺2 new cases - both linked; 9 cases in cluster now
📺all children in eth centre tested negative so far, staff still being tested (staff work in multiple locations and have been [appropriately] moving about normally)
📺16 active cases in QLD all up
📺5388 people tested yesterday (but cold weather may have slowed this)
📺all the clinics are open, queues were not long
📺symptomatic people are the focus of testing
📺list of locations about to be distributed - locals urged to check it out and monitor your health closely if you have visited these places at those times
📺right now, we need to be testing "a lot more people than we have in the past 24h period"-capacity is there, people are not
📺genomics being done on this cluster; Logan cluster sequencing done already
📺"acting on the evidence in the best interest of people"' --Qld State Premier
📺PPE stocks much better than they were, so being used more widely
📺anyone in greater Brisbane, Logan Ipswich & West Moreton with *any* symptoms need to get tested
📺all the children are being managed within the Centre; some had already left and are being tracked down
📺not concerned about testing asymptomatic cases as evidence growing that they don't have a major role in new transmission chains
📺the incubation period is 14d but most become ill around 5-6d
📺Local Government Areas (LGAs) have been listed as restricted areas
qld.gov.au/health/conditi…
📺The Qld Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young
health.qld.gov.au/news-events/ne…
List of places & times visited (not sure of this is paywalled or not)
couriermail.com.au/news/queenslan…
The Qld Govt version of the list, h/t @jimjimbo1
qld.gov.au/health/conditi…
This updated QLD cluster graphic is *not* meant to imply a link between them (the source for the BYDC cluster is not yet known AFAIK), just to show key details about the 2 recent events. Having said that. They aren't that far apart in time (& thus transmission generations).
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