NO COMMUNITY CASES, BUT CHANGES TO BUBBLE
QUEENSLAND has recorded no new cases of Covid-19, however changes to the state’s border bubble are expected after Tweed and Byron Bay were plunged into lockdown.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Queensland would wait until Gladys Berejiklian provided a Covid update before making any change to the border bubble.
The update confirmed the Byron, Tweed and Kempsey local government areas will return to lockdown for a week, effective from 5pm today.
It comes after an authorised worker who visited Byron, Ballina and Tweed over the weekend tested positive to Covid.
Ms Palaszczuk also urged people to get vaccinated and trust health advice.
“Do not listen to misinformation on Facebook or social media,” she said.
“Go and see your doctor or come to one of our vaccination hubs.”
Ms Palaszczuk also confirmed the state’s vaccination total had hit the 60 per cent mark following the “Super Pfizer Weekend” campaign that ended a record 325,000 week in which 325,000 jabs were administered.
A new analysis by The Courier-Mail shows Queensland could have 80 per cent of the community aged 16 and older fully vaccinated by November 13 if the state government made “Super Pfizer Weekends” a fixture and other areas of the rollout collectively grew five per cent each week.
On that forecast, Queensland would hit 90 per cent of the adult population fully vaccinated by November 23, six days sooner than the current national forecast.