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Coronavirus: Almost 60 locations linked to Queensland cluster

Nadine Carroll
Updated ·6-min read

Almost 60 locations have been linked to a coronavirus cluster at the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre after contact tracing identified the spots infected people had visited.

Two new cases confirmed overnight in the Sunshine State were linked to detention centre cluster, which has a total of nine infections after a worker was diagnosed with the virus on Wednesday.

The 77-year-old Ipswich worker had experienced mild symptoms and continued to work while infectious.

The two new cases include a woman in her 30s and a baby boy from the West Moreton region. Queensland Health confirmed the baby has not been in childcare or family day care.

This prompted health authorities to publish an alert for locations centred mainly around the area of Logan, south of Brisbane.

Children at Wacol's Brisbane Youth Detention Centre (pictured) remain in lockdown and tests continue after a worker was diagnosed on Wednesday.
Children at the Wacol centre remain in lockdown and tests continue after a worker was diagnosed on Wednesday. Source: AAP

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young cautioned further venues may be advised as contact tracing continues.

“These are not the only venues these people attended, but they are the ones we are most concerned about as a potential risk,” Dr Young said on Sunday.

Full list of locations

  • August 9: Anytime Fitness Village Square, Browns Plains between 11am and 12.10pm; Woolworths Browns Plains Grand Plaza between 11am and 12pm

  • August 10: Spotlight, Browns Plains between about 9.30am and about 9.45am; Anytime Fitness Village Square, Browns Plains between 10.15am and 11.25am; Woolworths Browns Plains Grand Plaza between about 11am and about 12.30pm; Greenbank Takeaway between 5.30pm and 5.40pm; Woolworths Forest Lake Shopping Centre

  • August 11: BP Wacol (Cnr Boundary & Progress Rds) between about 6am and about 6.15am; Mt Gravatt Swimming Pool, Wecker Road between about 10.30am and 11.45am; Dami Japanese Restaurant, Mt Gravatt from about 12pm

  • August 12: Woolworths, Forest Lake shopping centre between about 4.30pm and about 5pm; Thai Antique, Carina Heights between 6pm and 6.15pm; Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza from 7.15pm

  • August 13: Australian Nails, Forest Lake shopping centre between 11am and about 12am; Forest Lake shopping centre between 11am and 3pm; Nandos, Forest Lake shopping centre from 12pm

  • August 14: OfficeWorks, Browns Plains between about 10am and about 10.10am; Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza between about 10am and about 11am; IKEA, Slacks Creek between 11am and 2pm; Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre between about 11.15am and about 11:30am; Anytime Fitness Village Square, Browns Plains between 2.20pm and 3.30pm; Bunnings, Browns Plains between about 2.30pm and about 3pm; Coles, Forest Lake shopping centre between about 4pm and about 4.30pm

  • August 15: Kmart, Browns Plains Grand Plaza between 9.30am and 9.45am; Anytime Fitness Village Square, Brown Plains between 10.25am and 11.35am

  • August 16: Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre between about 10am and about 10.15am; Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza between about 10.30am and about 11am; Anytime Fitness Village Square, Browns Plains between 1.20pm and 2.30pm; Riverlink Shopping Centre, Ipswich in the morning; The Reject Shop, Ipswich in the morning; Jamaica Blue coffee shop, Ipswich in the morning

  • August 17: Indooroopilly Shopping Centre between 11am and 1pm; BUPA, Indooroopilly between 11am and 1pm; Origin Kebabs, Indooroopilly between 11am and 1pm; Greenbank Takeaway between about 6.30pm and about 6.40pm; Costco Bundamba self-service fuel station in the afternoon

  • August 18: BCF, Greenslopes between about 12.30pm and about 1pm; Chemist Warehouse (Waratah Dr), Crestmead in the afternoon; Uncle Bill's Takeaway, Brassall between 5.45pm and 6.15pm; BP Wacol (Cnr Boundary & Progress Rds) in the evening

  • August 19: 12 RND Fitness, Birkdale between 8am and 9.30am; Woolworths, Browns Plains Grand Plaza from 9.30am; The Jam Pantry, Greenslopes between 10.30am and 11.45am; Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre between about 1pm and about 3pm; Indooroopilly shopping Centre between 1pm and 4pm; Myer, Indooroopilly between 1pm and 4pm; David Jones, Indooroopilly between 1pm and 4pm; Touch of Indian, Indooroopilly between 1pm and 4pm; Sweets from Heaven, Indooroopilly between 1pm and 4pm; Bras 'n' Things, Westfield Carindale between about 1pm and about 3pm; Ghanda Clothing, Westfield Carindale between about 1pm and about 3pm; Myer, Westfield Carindale between about 1pm and about 3pm; Baskin Robbins, Camp Hill Market Place between about 5.30pm and about 5.40pm; Pho Inn, Camp Hill Market Place between about 5.30pm and about 5.40pm

  • August 19-20: Ipswich Hospital ED between 11pm and 6.19am

  • August 20: Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre between about 10am and about 10.15am

  • August 21: Woolworths, Forest Lake shopping centre between about 10.30am and about 10.45am

Those who visited the identified locations are urged to get tested even if they’re suffering even the mildest symptoms.

‘We're not out of the woods yet’

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Sunday more than 200 of 500 staff at the Wacol centre had tested negative and more than 110 youths had returned negative results.

Health authorities are prioritising testing at the detention centre after all the 127 detainees were placed into lockdown on Wednesday evening.

"The results overnight are encouraging but of course we're not out of the woods yet," Ms Palaszczuk told reporters.

More than 100 staff members from the Department of Justice and additional officers from police and corrective services will come on board as current staff undergo quarantine.

The children are now being allowed out of their rooms in controlled groups.

"I want to assure parents we're taking good care of (them)," Department of Youth Justice director-general Bob Gee said.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is pictured on the left. On the right is a photo of a border checkpoint.
'The results overnight are encouraging but of course we're not out of the woods yet,' Annastacia Palaszczuk (left) told reporters. Pictured right is a border checkpoint. Source: AAP

Queensland has 16 active coronavirus cases. The cases at the centre mark Queensland's first locally acquired transmissions in more than a month.

As a result, the premier on Saturday capped indoor and outdoor gatherings without a COVID-safe plan in Queensland's southeast to 10 people and announced a 30-person limit on gatherings elsewhere in the state.

"I know there are disappointed people out there," Ms Palaszczuk said on Sunday.

"We have to put public health and community health first."

Authorities face a nervous wait to discover if the cases are genomically linked to an outbreak triggered by two Logan women who dodged quarantine following a visit to Melbourne in June.

with AAP

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