

“We’ll examine all those issues around passes, whether they are appropriate and what has happened – it is too early to say. “All the aspects of how that’s occurred, including what’s happened in the other states, we will do in a cooperative manner with our colleagues in Victoria in New South Wales. “We’ve got a couple that have come from Victoria when Victoria is in a lockdown. “Of course we are going to investigate the circumstances of what’s happened here,” Commissioner Gollschewski said. In the meantime, their prime concern was contract tracing and to determine who has been exposed to the virus, he said.


Queensland deputy police commissioner Steve Gollschewski said police would investigate. Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the couple’s movements would be examined and they would be questioned on their reasons for travelling into the state while Victoria was declared a hotspot. “The community has had to put up with so much now for 18 months and to do this again, it doesn‘t matter the cause, any community case of COVID is going to be frustrating for a lot of people.” “She has been out and about since she arrived – since June 5,” she said. While her husband has not tested positive, he is being monitored in Sunshine Coast University Hospital.ĭr Young said the woman developed symptoms on June 3 and empathised with Queenslanders about the positive case. She said contact tracers had so far identified six close contacts and results are pending on those people. “Of course we will be looking into how all this happened.” “I don’t know the details of why they left or what the reason was,” Dr Young said. She visited those towns between June 1 and June 5, where she signed into several venues using QR codes. The woman stopped at numerous regional towns in NSW including Gillenbah, Forbes, Dubbo and Moree.
