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Early-season flu spike prompts call to get vaccination

The Queensland premier and chief health officer are urging residents to get flu jabs after more than 6300 influenza cases have been recorded this year so far.

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About 4 million Queenslanders contracted COVID-19 at least once in 2022, Chief Health Officer says

About 4 million Queenslanders contracted COVID-19 at least once last year, infecting more people in a single year than any other virus in the state's history, Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said.

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Queenslanders are living longer than ever, but vaping, sunburn and diets loom as dangers, chief health officer's report finds

The increase in life expectancy – which does not take in last year's COVID-19 deaths — comes off the back of drops in Queensland tobacco smoking.

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With authorities in Queensland scaling back COVID protocols, here’s a look back at where we were 12, 24 and 36 months ago

Queensland's fourth year of living with COVID-19 begins today – marking the anniversary of the first time the state's then Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young warned the public of a novel coronavirus emerging out of China.

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Queensland's COVID-19 protocols downgraded from amber to green, so what's changed?

COVID-19 will continue to place significant pressure on Queensland's health system in 2023 with more waves predicted throughout the year, the state's Chief Health Officer John Gerrard says.

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Qld lowers COVID-19 pandemic alert level

Queensland, which has emerged from a fourth wave of COVID-19, will cut its community alert level to green from amber.

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Queensland COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations fall as disease identified as a leading killer in 2022

Authorities say there were 8,635 active cases of the virus on January 11 — a fall of 19 per cent on the week before.

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Queenslanders reminded COVID won't be gone by Christmas despite peak of latest wave passing

With the virus still widespread throughout the community, the state's Chief Health Officer John Gerrard repeated warnings for sick Queenslanders to stay away from the elderly and vulnerable during the festive period.

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Queensland's COVID-19 peak expected next week, CHO urges people not to visit elderly at Christmas if sick

The number of COVID-19 cases in Queensland are up 16 per cent on last week, and are expected to increase ahead of next week's peak.

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Queensland COVID-19 cases up 21 per cent, majority still first-time infections, CHO says

A "large number" of people over 60 who were not up to date with their COVID vaccines are among the newly infected, the state's chief health officer says.

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Long COVID clinic in Brisbane offers hope to sufferers as Queensland studies cases

Long COVID has shown that the disease can be far more than just a seven-day isolation period. A Brisbane clinic is rehabilitating long COVID sufferers who battle fatigue and breathlessness.

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Everyone's talking about COVID-19 again, here’s what's happening in Australia and what you need to know

Multiple states and territories around the nation have signalled a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations.

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Nebraska food plant had dozens of child labourers cleaning equipment, leaving two with caustic burns

A judge ordered a halt to the Dickensian work conditions at food processing plants where young teens suffered chemical burns while cleaning dangerous machinery

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Queensland man hospitalised with Legionellosis after a weekend of gardening as cases spike

Cases of Legionellosis infections — commonly known as legionnaires' disease — have spiked in Queensland and New South Wales this year.

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Japanese encephalitis virus warning ahead of wet summer

After a few quiet months, Queensland health authorities are warning against complacency when it comes to fatal mosquito-borne disease.

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Should Queenslanders be worried about rising cases of new COVID-19 variants, BQ.1 and XBB, in Victoria and New South Wales?

Chief Health officer John Gerrard says "it is quite possible" Queensland would experience a wave "in the coming weeks" as other states record rising COVID-19 case numbers.

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency in Queensland has ended. Here's what that means

The Public Health Emergency Declaration expired overnight and the laws that made Queensland's Chief Health Officer the most powerful person in the state have been changed. Here's what you need to know.

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Queensland approaches 2,000 COVID-19 deaths, new 'traffic light' COVID warning system announced

Queensland is poised to surpass 2,000 COVID deaths as the state’s Chief Health Officer John Gerrard foreshadows a "traffic light system" to warn the public of virus waves moving forward.

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COVID-19: Experts say the worst is over, maybe, but infections will continue for decades

New case numbers in this deadly COVID-19 winter wave are shrinking. But people are still dying in record numbers. Still, some experts are optimistic.

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Covid becomes Australia’s third most common cause of death in 2022

The virus trails only heart disease and dementia after an estimated 7,100 fatalities from January to July, researchers say

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Queensland over peak of COVID-19 wave

Pressure on Queensland's health system is beginning to ease after the state passed a peak in COVID-19 hospitalisations much earlier than modelling predicted.

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Queensland's latest COVID-19 wave has passed, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says

While attending Brisbane's Ekka, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says COVID-19-related hospital admissions have been falling steadily since last month.

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Flu spike, COVID 'double whammy' puts added strain on health system in Queensland regions

Some Queensland regions have recorded flu cases more than 12 times above the average year, putting huge pressure on the regional health system.

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COVID-19 outbreaks could hit two-thirds of Queensland's aged care facilities in third wave of Omicron

More than 160 Queensland residential aged care facilities are dealing with active COVID-19 outbreaks, with the third Omicron wave threatening to hit harder than the January peak.

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COVID-19 cases in Queensland hospitals likely to pass 1,000, CHO says, as isolation rules change

Triage tents are being used outside some hospitals in south-east Queensland, with the number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 across the state likely to exceed 1,000 in coming weeks — the highest number of the pandemic so far, health authorities say.

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