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1.12am BST
Queensland health minister Yvette D’ath says they are not overly concerned about a Covid-19 positive traveller who arrived on a flight from NSW.
He flew in from New South Wales on the 17th of September, on flight QF 516 through the Brisbane domestic airport. He was fully vaccinated.
And so we don’t have a lot of concern in relation to this one because any flights coming in from New South Wales are deemed red flights anyway so people getting off those flights are deemed to potentially be infectious, and generally going into hotel quarantine so we’re pretty confident that there’s low risk in relation to that case.
1.10am BST
Queensland has recorded one local and one overseas Covid-19 case, both detected in hotel quarantine.
Monday 20 September – coronavirus cases in Queensland:
1 new local case – detected in hotel quarantine.
1 new overseas acquired case – detected in hotel quarantine.#covid19 pic.twitter.com/k8Li5xyIYA
