Lockdown ‘absolutely right call’ as Queensland records eight new locally-acquired cases

Queensland has recorded eight locally-acquired cases of COVID-19 with 78 active cases of the virus currently in the state’s hospitals. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said six of the new cases were linked, while two are currently under investigation, and two cases overseas-acquired arriving in Queensland from Papua New Guinea. The premier also announced the existence of a further COVID cluster, with one now linked to the Princess Alexandra Hospital doctor and the new cluster linked to the hospital nurse. “The good news is that these cases are linked,” Premier Palaszczuk said. Queensland’s hospitals now have 78 active coronavirus cases in hospital up from five in the past month. The growing cases on Tuesday comes after the Queensland government plunged the entire state into a three-day lockdown on Monday night in an effort to stem the spread of the virus. The premier pointed to the case increase on Tuesday as evidence the lockdown was the right decision to make in the midst of the growing clusters. “The steps that we took to take, to go into this lockdown, as you can see by those numbers of community transmission today, was absolutely the right call,” she said.

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