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A further 101 people have been admitted to hospital with Covid in the last 24 hours, with 21 deaths reported in the same period.
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A massive disparity in pandemic recovery funding is threatening to do what Covid could never achieve – send the iconic Queensland country show into extinction.
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Today was meant to be a public holiday in Brisbane, for People’s Day at the Ekka. Authorities say there is still cause for celebration after Queenslanders managed to halt the spread of the Delta variant – again.
People have been travelling in and out of Queensland, sometimes via hotel quarantine, with COVID-19. Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says everyone else must continue to protect themselves.
A crisis in public liability cover is threatening to wipe-out nearly 80 per cent of Australia’s show operators by October, putting events large and small at serious risk of closure.
Crowd numbers at this year’s Royal Queensland Show – the Ekka – will be capped at 45,000 a day and marshalls will roam the pavilions ensuring people do not get too close to each other as part of a special pandemic strategy.
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