Brisbanites Who Visited These Locations Are Being Told to Get Tested and Self-Isolate – Concrete Playground

Sneezing into our elbows, maintaining a 1.5-metre distance from other people, and washing our hands thoroughly and often: they’re just some of the practices that Australians adopted in 2020 and have been continuing into 2021 in response to COVID-19. So is paying particular attention to where we’ve all been, which links into ongoing contact-tracing efforts — because naming locations and venues that positive coronavirus cases have visited is a crucial part of the country’s containment strategy.

That includes in Queensland, where today, Thursday, January 7, state authorities have just announced a local COVID-19 case in a quarantine hotel worker. In response, Queensland Health has issued a health alert outlining places that residents…