Qld quarantine workers to face weekly COVID testing or six months in jail

The testing is to begin from December 28 after a two-week “transitional period”.

Workers with no coronavirus symptoms will not have to isolate while they await their results but must show proof of their test at the start of their shift.

Those who fail to get tested on a weekly basis or continue to work with symptoms face a $13,300 fine or up to six months behind bars.

The new public health order, made by Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young, is the latest step to clamp down on quarantine.

On Thursday, Dr Young said the state’s hotel quarantine system was coping, but the risk of an outbreak was increasing as more people arrive back from overseas in the lead-up to Christmas.

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