There have been two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 overnight from 19,780 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.
One new case is a trainer from the Queensland Corrective Services Academy at Wacol who lives in Forest Lake.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said he had not been working in any prisons.
“There were some reports he was working in the prisons but that is not correct,” she said.
The trainer had trained 14 recruits and was working alongside 11 colleagues when he developed a sore throat and went home.
He had been tested at the start of his shift but his temperature returned normal.
When the official results of his test came though it was positive for COVID-19.
As a precaution all prisons from Capricornia Correctional Centre to the south have been placed into stage four lockdown which means prisoners will be locked in their cell. All staff will be required to wear PPE and any movement around the prison will be significantly limited.
The other new case was a returned traveller from Papua New Guinea who is in quarantine.
Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young confirmed the results of the genome sequencing to determine a link between the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre cluster to one of the women who travelled to Melbourne has been indecisive.
“While they match almost perfectly there’s only one very small change, one nucleotide change between the two which suggests they are linked, the only problem is that that particular strain has shown very little mutation so it’s although that’s almost an exact match we have also found other cases elsewhere that have that exact match,” Dr Young said.
“There just hasn’t been any change in the viruses so we can’t say definitely that those two cases are linked. We can’t say they are not.
“So that’s where we will have to leave that one we are still looking to see that whether through contact tracing work we can find any link between the two clusters.”
There are 11 cases linked to the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre cluster with the new case (12th) undergoing contact tracing to determine the link to the cluster.
Health Minister Steven Miles said Queensland Health have tested over 40,000 Queenslanders over the past two days describing it as a fantastic result.
There are many other COVID testing locations in the West Moreton region, with some requiring a referral from your GP. See the full list here: https://www.westmoreton.health.qld.gov.au/coronavirus
Queensland Health authorities are urging anyone who displays even the mildest symptoms to get tested.
Symptoms of COVID-19 can include a fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, fatigue or loss of taste or smell.
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