Two new locally acquired cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in Queensland.
Both have been in home quarantine and have been linked to the Carindale case.
"So we have absolutely no concerns about these two," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.
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"So this is fantastic news."
A third case was diagnosed in hotel quarantine.
There is "no risk at all" to the public for the two new local cases of coronavirus in Queensland, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.
"When they went into home quarantine they tested negative. They now tested positive," Dr Young said.
"We have gone and done some further work and they had no public exposure sites."
Praise for Sunshine Coast hospital staff
Ms Palaszczuk praised 10 staff at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital who saved the life of a COVID-positive patient who went into anaphylactic shock.
"I'm so proud. I'm proud of each and every one of them," the premier said.
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"I know that Queenslanders are proud of them as well. And of course they'll go into isolation now, because they just went in and did exactly what anyone who works in our health service would do."
The 10 hospital staffers were nearly all fully vaccinated.
Only one of the 10 was still waiting for their second dose of the vaccine.
Nevertheless, all self-reported they may have been exposed, despite wearing PPE.
"They just felt their PPE may have been compromised because they were in such a rush to help that patient," Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said.
"We've been very, very cautious with the Delta variant, which is what the patient does have."
The staff will spent 14 days in quarantine and will be tested regularly.
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NSW 'responsible' for Queensland man's exemption delay
Ms Palaszczuk has expressed her condolences to a man unable to get into the state to see his mother before she died.
"Our hearts go out to him. To lose someone so close is just awful," she said.
But Ms Palaszczuk said his exemption application was still being processed by NSW.
"It was actually in the hands of NSW. They were progressing a test he needed," she said.
"I'm not apportioning blame here."
She expressed her support for the under pressure exemptions unit in Queensland.
"They're trying their best. They're humans," she said.
"They realise they are real people with real families. They're not just pieces of paper. They're people."
The Queensland check-in app will become mandatory tomorrow morning, Ms D'Ath said.
"We do remind any business, if you haven't registered yet, you need to register," she said.
We will have compliance officers going out and checking."
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