School’s out: Queensland Education Minister contracts COVID-19

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Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace has contracted COVID-19, just days before she was to outline the state’s return to school plans for early next month.

As Queensland recorded 11 deaths and 9546 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, health officials are confident the omicron wave is close to peaking in the populated south-eastern corner.Getty

as part of their return to school plan. They have provided 20 million RATs for the task when schools resume this week and early next week.But Palaszczuk government ministers, health authorities and union representatives have not backed the compulsory testing plan in Queensland. Although the number of Queensland cases is declining, the number of hospitalisations is peaking, with 928 people in hospital and 51 in ICU.Dr Gerrard said there would still be strains on the hospital network when the omicron wave peaked in the next few weeks.

The quarantine facility at Wellcamp, the Queensland Regional Accommodation Centre, will soon open with 500 beds, which will later expand to 1000.

 

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