Coronavirus Queensland: Latest news, figures on COVID-19 pandemic - Courier Mail

QUEENSLAND has recorded 40 new cases of the novel coronavirus overnight, taking the state’s total to 781 - an increase of just five per cent.

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The growth rate continues to drop in Queensland, suggesting strict social distancing measures, quarantine and border controls are working.

Queensland Health Director-General John Wakefield said nine patients were in intensive care, seven of them on ventilators.

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Queensland infections represent 16.6 per cent of the Australian total of 4707 cases, despite the Sunshine State having 20 per cent of the national population.

NSW, which makes up almost a third of the Australian population, has 2182 cases of pandemic coronavirus, close to half of the nation’s cases.

Queensland has conducted more than 50,800 tests for the virus in the past two months.

Across the world, more than 826,000 infections with the new virus have been recorded, including about 40,700 deaths.

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AN Australian Border Force official based in Queensland has tested positive to the novel coronavirus.

Queensland Health last night confirmed a border force official had been infected but it was unclear where he was working when he came in contact with the virus.

The Department of Home Affairs also confirmed a second Australian Border Force officer from NSW tested positive for COVID-19.

Australian Border Force officers talk with New Zealand passengers from the Vasco Da Gama cruise ship in Perth last week. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Most of Queensland’s 743 cases so far have been in people returning from overseas or their close contacts.

Border Force officials would have come in contact with many people arriving on International flights during the coronavirus pandemic.

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