South Burnett Local Disaster Management Group (LDMG) update #3 on COVID-19
Representatives of the South Burnett Regional Council Local Disaster Management Group (LDMG) continued to meet over the weekend with members of the Cherbourg LDMG and the District Disaster Group
to monitor and respond to the COVID positive cases across the whole region.
The total number of cases within the South Burnett Regional Council Local Government area is 25 as at 7:00 pm on 1 January 2022 and advice received today has confirmed that the current outbreak is the Omicron Variant. Previous advice was confirmed that the cases are located in Murgon, Kingaroy and Nanango.
The LDMG has been advised that from 31 December 2021, the LDMG will only be notified of major outbreak venues or super-spreader events in Queensland.
Further that Queensland Health are no longer routinely listing exposure sites in Queensland since transmission of COVID-19 is now widespread throughout metropolitan, regional, and remote Queensland.
With the surge in cases across Queensland, contact tracing is focusing more on household and household-like contacts.
There will therefore be a further shift away from determining and notifying what would previously have been posted on the Queensland Health website as casual contact venues.
Advice received is that all should expect that any interaction in the community could lead to a COVID exposure. Our community can minimise our risk of exposure with social distancing, wearing of masks and of course vaccination.
Updated regional statistics can be found on the following Queensland Health Web Site:
Links to COVID related information are also available on the Council website in the COVID-19 section.
https://www.southburnett.qld.gov.au/covid-19-novel-coronavirus-2
If you have any COVID-19 symptoms, no matter how mild, call your doctor or 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) and get tested.
Call emergency services on 000 if you are very sick.
Read more about testing for COVID-19.
