There have been five new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in Brisbane overnight but the lockdown will end Saturday 6pm.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said one was a known contact from the Portuguese restaurant cluster which they "don't have much concern about" while the second one was the one reported late Friday of man in his 50s who lives at Aroona and worked at the Sunshine Coast University.
"We are confident now that it was likely to be linked to the Portuguese restaurant outbreak, so that's the Alpha strain. So, we don't have too many concerns there, and his close contacts there have been tested and come back negative," the Premier said.
But the third one, the premier said, she "really needs the people on the Sunshine Coast, the Noosa area to listen to this".
"We have a 29-year-old Brisbane man, and he has travelled to Eumundi and he is related to the woman we talked about yesterday, who's linked to that Carindale Greek Community Centre," she said.
"We also understand that he and his partner also went to a restaurant at Sunshine Beach, so we are trying to get that information, so that will be updated through the media later on. So, we have some slight concerns there about those areas."
The fourth case is a woman in her 50s from Everton Park who works at the Prince Charles Hospital who only worked one shift, not in a COVID ward, and had her first dose of vaccination.
"And then we've also just had in that, we have a man in his 50s, a baggage handler who works in Brisbane Domestic Airport, lives at Carindale, and is not a known contact," the Premier said.
"So, in relation to these last three issues I mentioned, we are very closely monitoring those."
The Premier said it was important for people to continuing to wear masks and use QR codes to check into businesses.