Thread by @dbRaevn

🧵QLD - Public Health Directions & Lockdowns
#COVID19qld

Charting the lockdowns in QLD and the key public health directions related to movement, gatherings, mask wearing and businesses.

A small number of business types could not operate outside of the business closure period. But most were open with restrictions on capacity etc.

Restriction levels were constantly changing; mostly relating to gathering sizes at home and outside, and density/business limitations.

There were many more Directions than indicated - Directions for Hospitals, Aged Care, Borders, Quarantine etc. are not included. A total of 113 Directions are included in the chart covering restrictions relating to lockdowns, movement, gatherings, mask wearing and business.

QLD Chief Health Office Public Health Directions can be found here:
health.qld.gov.au/system-governa…

For a list of the Directions used in the above chart, see here:
github.com/dbRaevn/covid1…

Outbreak maps are included with lockdowns where they exist.

🔒1: QLD Initial Lockdown
🗓23/03/2020 - 01/06/2020, 70d
(🗓23/03/2020 - 15/05/2020, Businesses closed)
(🗓29/03/2020 - 01/06/2020, Lockdown)
📌State-wide
🧬: Original

Country-wide lockdown at the start of the pandemic. Stores closed first followed by stay-at-home directions.

🔒2: Greater Brisbane Lockdown 1
🗓08/01/2021 - 11/01/2021, 3d
📌Greater Brisbane (5 LGAs)
🧬: α Alpha

Short lockdown to allow for contact tracing after UK variant (Alpha) was detected in a quarantine worker.

🔒3: Greater Brisbane Lockdown 2
🗓29/03/2021 - 01/04/2021, 2.8d (ended 5h early)
📌Greater Brisbane (5 LGAs)
🧬: α Alpha

Two separate clusters traced back to a Doctor and Nurse (two separate infection instances on different days from overseas) from Princess Alexandra Hospital.

🔒4: SEQ Lockdown 1
🗓29/06/2021 - 03/07/2021, 4d (Brisbane, Moreton Bay)
🗓29/06/2021 - 02/07/2021, 3d (others)
📌SE Queensland (11 LGAs) + Townsville & Palm Island
🧬: α Alpha, δ Delta

Separate restaurant / Airport / Hospital outbreaks.

🗺Outbreak Map: raw.githubusercontent.com/dbRaevn/covid1…

🔒5: SEQ Lockdown 2
🗓31/07/2021 - 08/08/2021, 8.1d
📌SE Queensland (11 LGAs)
🧬: δ Delta

Taringa outbreak affecting Indooroopilly state High school, Ironside state school, Brisbane Grammar and Brisbane Girls Grammar.

🗺Outbreak Map: raw.githubusercontent.com/dbRaevn/covid1…

🔒6: Cairns Lockdown
🗓08/08/2021 - 11/08/2021, 3 days
📌Cairns & Yarrabah
🧬: δ Delta

Started when a Delta case was detected in a Reef Pilot in Cairns.

QLD lockdown summary

• 🔒6 Lockdowns
• 🕙90.9 days total (74.6 adjusted per-capita)
• 10.2% of 2020-2021 under lockdown

Adjusted per-capita is based on the population included in any given lockdown area. E.g., 50% of the state locked down for 1 day = 0.5 adjusted.