Bravo QLD! Via ABC comes the complete absurdity of the Morrison Government’s economic unplan:
The Queensland Premier says the state’s border restrictions will not be relaxed until there are no cases of community transmission in New South Wales and Victoria.
Annastacia Palaszczuk said she was putting the health of Queenslanders first.
“We do not have any intentions of opening any borders whilst there is community transmission active in Victoria and in New South Wales,” she said.
“I think we’re going to continue to see restrictions in Victoria up until Christmas time, that’s very unfortunate for people living there but it’s a serious situation.
“You only have to look at what’s happening around the world and we definitely don’t want to see that happening here.”
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said it was a busy long weekend at the state’s border crossings, with thousands travelling by air and road.
“One-hundred-and-thirty-two flights came into the state, 7,230 passengers were processed and 19 were refused entry and 740 were placed into quarantine,” he said.
“At our road borders, we saw 8,861 vehicles intercepted, with 594 people turned around … we quarantined 27 people from the road border.
Mr Gollschewski said it was a timely reminder that Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT were considered hotspots.
No community transmission for 28 days
Police inspected 605 licensed premises across the state and only one warning was given — to a venue in Townsville in north Queensland.
Fourteen on-the-spot fines were issued over the long weekend, with nine for false border declaration forms and one for a border breach.
Queensland recorded no new cases of community transmission overnight, with eight active cases and 1,091 total confirmed cases.
About 2,519 tests were conducted in the 24-hour period.
There have been no cases of community transmission in Queensland in 28 days.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said it was still vital restrictions remained in place at the border to ensure case numbers were kept under control.
“No new cases in Queensland overnight is excellent,” Dr Young said.
“It means though that we have to be even more careful with anyone coming into Queensland from a hotspot, which today is all of Victoria and New South Wales — although people in those strict border-zone areas can travel into Queensland — and anyone from overseas.
“We don’t know where the next case might pop up. We hope there won’t be any we don’t know about, but it’s still really important that anyone who becomes unwell gets tested for COVID and isolates themselves immediately.
“That way, if we get onto the first case, we’ll stop a cluster happening and we’ll stop the broader consequences.”
Given NSW has a suppression strategy, the border closure is now indefinite for the duration of the pandemic.
How long before the secession vote?
