Two new cases as Brisbane school launches border appeal
Queensland has recorded two new COVID-19 cases, both linked to a growing cluster in the state’s south-east.
The new cases were diagnosed in people who were close contacts of others who had already tested positive for the virus, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.
Barriers on the Queensland-NSW border.Credit:
“We are very comfortable with that," she said.
“The number of tests conducted in the past 24 hours is 18,151, so that is great news.”
There are now 28 cases linked to the cluster, which has spread from the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre and the Queensland Corrective Services Academy.
Meanwhile, a Brisbane private school has launched an appeal for the Queensland Government to extend travel exemptions to its boarding school students whose families live in northern New South Wales.
Stuartholme School, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in the city’s inner west, posted the video to its official Facebook page on Tuesday night.
In a video captioned "a call for justice", a series of students from northern New South Wales face the camera to plead with the government to grant them exemptions to travel home.
"We are in Year 7 and this is our first year of boarding," one girl said.
"It is heartbreaking enough not knowing when we are going to see our families again and hug our pets."
A trio of Year 12 students said they would "dearly love for our parents to see us graduate and go to formal".
'We appreciate that Queensland needs to stay safe but we would all really like to go home," one girl said.
"As much as our physical health matters, our mental health matters too. We may not have a voice but we will not go unheard," another said.
"Agricultural workers have an exemption, but most of us live on properties too, so why don’t we have an exemption too?"