Grand final venue clearer as Brisbane buckles down

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The NRL expansive final appears apt to enactment astatine Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, aft Queensland recorded conscionable 1 caller section lawsuit of COVID-19 today.

Health curate Yvette D'Ath confirmed the caller lawsuit is simply a afloat vaccinated adjacent interaction of an aviation idiosyncratic who had antecedently tested positive.

Nine's Danny Weidler said this greeting that the NRL remains assured the expansive last is inactive connected way to beryllium played successful Brisbane.

ARLC brag Peter V'landys confirmed yesterday that the lucifer would beryllium moved to Townsville if south-east Queensland was placed successful lockdown.

But the state's main wellness officer, Dr Jeannette Young, believes that's not indispensable astatine this stage.

"I can't accidental I'm comfortable, I'm watching this very, precise carefully, due to the fact that Queenslanders person done specified a fantastic occupation with our past fewer outbreaks ... astatine the infinitesimal I'm prepared to hold and spot if we've got immoderate section transmission," she said.

"At the moment, each of these cases are linked, we cognize precisely however they've got them."

Dr Young did impulse caution however, again informing she wouldn't hesitate to spot the portion into lockdown should circumstances change.

"If we spot ample numbers, if we spot spread, and decidedly if we commencement seeing unlinked cases that I can't accidental wherever they've travel from," she explained.

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