More than 3000 COVID-positive patients are being monitored at home by Queensland hospitals, with authorities hopeful the coming long weekends and holidays might quell transmission in schools.
A total of 8478 new infections were reported on Sunday, with more than 61,000 known cases across the state, Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe told reporters. No new deaths were recorded. Fifty pop-up vaccination clinics will be set up during the school holidays to lift school-aged and booster rates.Mr Hinchliffe said 375 patients were in public hospitals, including 14 in intensive care. Twelve of the 375 were school-aged children, split evenly among primary and secondary students.or online by Hospital and Health Services.as pressure on the health system from the second Omicron-driven wave peaks in coming weeks.
He joined tourism industry figures on Sunday to spruik the use of school holidays, which are now under way, along with three upcoming long weekends in a row – for Easter, Anzac Day and Labour Day – to holiday within the state. Fifty pop-up vaccination clinics will also be set up during the school holidays to lift school-aged and booster rates.After the state government extended Chief Health Officer John Gerrard’s powers to issue enforceable health directions