Urgent health alert in Brisbane as truckie infected with Covid drives from NSW into Queensland
- A Covid-positive truckie entered Queensland from NSW in Goondiwindi area
- Queensland Health has issued contact sites for Archerfield and Goondiwindi
- The driver entered Queensland on August 25 and returned to NSW a day later
A truck driver from New South Wales has tested positive to Covid-19 in Queensland.
Queensland Health has issued a public health alert for the Archerfield area in Brisbane’s south-west and the southern border town of Goondiwindi.
The truckie is believed to have been infectious in the community for a day on Thursday last week.
Contact venues announced by Queensland Health include the BP truckstop, truck driver amenities and dining area in Goondiwindi from 5:30-6:30pm on Thursday, August 26, and a BP station at Archerfield, including indoor areas and the truck parking stop.
The driver entered Queensland on August 25 and returned to NSW the following day.
Any residents who visited the service stations identified below were encouraged to come forward for testing by Queensland Health.
Close and casual contact sites were announced by Queensland Health at Archerfield in south-west Brisbane and Goondiwindi on the NSW-Queensland border
The urgent public health alert was issued just days after a series of protests by truckies and border zone residents about Queensland’s requirement that essential workers have at least one dose of a Covid vaccine in order to cross the border.
On Monday truck drivers Tony Fulton and Brock Holroyd stopped their trucks on the M1 Pacific Motorway at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast, causing a traffic snarl of several kilometres.
The truckies’ were protesting the mandatory vaccine requirement introduced by Queensland for essential workers on August 21.
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