Everything you need to know about ICUs and the battle to keep COVID-19 patients alive.What will fully vaccinated travellers need to do to enter Queensland?.Read more about the spread of COVID-19 in Australia: "We need to have medical experts available to answer questions," he said. Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien said there should be a public health official at each daily press conference. No public health official was present at Monday's update to provide more detailed information. Mr Foley took several questions about the state's outbreak on notice, including how transmission was suspected to have occurred in the Southbank complex and which six mystery cases remained. "Nothing particularly definite, but as we seek to run down the last few chains of transmission we want to use this as an opportunity to remind everyone who works in that industrial precinct … just to think about any symptoms that you may have had over the last few weeks and to get tested if you have." "As many as 10 public and private exposure sites within this particular pocket of Thomastown with some broad overlap between a number of the positive cases," he said. Mr Foley said no source of infection had yet been found for the cases at the start of the Reservoir household cluster, who have the Kappa strain.īut he said contact tracers had seen some links with exposure sites in and around Thomastown's industrial precinct, south of the Metropolitan Ring Road.
( ABC News: Peter Drought) Workers from Thomastown industrial precinct urged to get tested A pop-up COVID-19 testing site at Wells Street, Southbank, after health authorities revealed concerns about transmission between residents of a nearby apartment complex.