Queenslanders urged to reconsider Sydney travel as COVID cluster grows

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the handful of cases that had been confirmed outside the northern beaches region were linked to that cluster, so she did not need to declare hotspots in other parts of Sydney.

However she warned that the situation was “rapidly changing” as contact tracers worked through all known contacts of the current cases, and thousands of people got tested.

“So while [the Sydney cases] are linked and there isn’t community spread in those localities, they won’t be declared hotspots,” she said.

“But were there to be community spread, as has occurred in the northern beaches, then of course we would look at that and consider whether we…