Queensland has entered into its fourth Covid wave with the Queensland premier urging Queenslanders to begin using their masks again.
Chief Health Officer John Gerrard has moved the state’s Covid traffic light scale from green to amber as Covid case numbers increase at a rapid rate.
The increase is largely due to the spread of new Covid variants such as the XBB and BQ1 strain, with the BQ1 variant also spreading rapidly through Europe and the US.
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