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COVID-19 NSW, Vic, Qld live updates: UK strain in Brisbane, Sydney cluster, border closures

COVID-19 NSW, Vic, Qld live updates: UK strain in Brisbane, Sydney cluster, border closures

Jan 15, 2021 3 mins, 12 secs

NSW Health has issued a new alert for people to get tested and isolate regardless of if they're positive or not after a confirmed case visited a clinic.

NSW Health has issued an alert for a health clinic in Sydney's west after it was visited by a confirmed case on Friday.

Anyone who was in the Wentworthville Medical and Dental Clinic – in the dental, physio and imaging waiting rooms only – between 11.30am and 1.15pm on Friday is considered a close contact and has to get tested and self-isolate for 14 days, regardless of their test result.

NSW recorded one locally acquired case of COVID-19 on Saturday with a further 11 in hotel quarantine.

Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Birmingham on Saturday said the 20 scheduled flights will be organised over the next couple of months and are in addition to 90 repatriation flights previously facilitated. .

NSW Health has issued an alert for a health clinic visited by a confirmed COVID-19 case on Friday, with close contacts required to get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of their test result.

The confirmed case visited the Wentworthville Medical and Dental Clinic on Station St between 11.30am and 1.15pm on Friday January 15.

NSW Health has been notified that a confirmed case of COVID-19 has visited a western Sydney clinic while potentially infectious.

NSW Health said anyone who was in other areas of the clinic at that time should monitor for symptoms and immediately isolate and get tested if they appear.

Some of the staff and guests who were forced back into quarantine after a cluster of cases linked to the Brisbane Hotel Grand Chancellor will be released after their risk level was reassessed.

"We are not allowing all guests to be released – just those who I believe are no longer an infection risk to the community,” Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said.

“Community contacts associated with the hotel cleaner who tested positive to the UK variant of COVID-19 – or her partner – are to remain in quarantine for the full 14 days.

“But I am happy that we are in a position where we can release many people from quarantine, especially guests who have already completed more than the required 14 days," Dr Young said.

She said she ordered the quarantine "out of caution" and it was "the safest action to take to protect the community".

“Due to a range of circumstances, individuals must await contact from the public health officer,” Dr Young said.

Mr Birmingham on Saturday also responded to the news Emirates will be suspending flights to and from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

“Unfortunately we have been informed by the health authorities that two people on your flight from LAX that arrived at 5:15am on Friday 15 January have returned positive COVID-19 PCR tests on arrival to Melbourne,” the Tennis Australia email read.

Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said his pre-flight positive result this week was deemed by Victorian health experts to be "viral shedding" from that infection.

30 Amanda Anismova have all tested positive for COVID-19.

The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services says those in Greater Brisbane can apply for the "orange zone permit" to enter Victoria from 6pm today.

Premier Daniel Andrews said: "There is sufficient stability that we can safely have those Victorians in Brisbane return home.".

"Conditions include getting a coronavirus (COVID-19) test within 72 hours and remaining in self-quarantine until you receive a negative test result," it said

"Ultimately, these are decisions the Government has to make based on public health advice," she said

Ms Wong said the Government should have established a "safe national quarantine system"

Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said the scrapping of the 48-hour deadline rule was as a result of advancements in genome sequencing

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