Brisbanites Who Visited These Locations in the City's West and Southeast Should Monitor for Symptoms

UPDATE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25: Since releasing its initial list of places visited by positive COVID-19 cases connected to the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre, Queensland Health has issued an update, adding further locations. The below article and list has been amended to reflect this.

Sneezing into our elbows, maintaining a 1.5-metre distance from other people, and washing our hands thoroughly and often: they're just some of the practices that Australians have adopted in 2020 in response to COVID-19. So is paying particular attention to where we've all been, which links into ongoing contact-tracing efforts — because naming locations and venues that positive coronavirus cases have visited is a crucial part of the country's containment strategy.

That includes in Queensland, where state authorities have been issuing health alerts outlining places that residents should note. By now, it has become a familiar routine: if you've visited these spots on the dates and during the times outlined, you should monitor your health, and self-isolate and get a test for COVID-19 if you start suffering from even the mildest of symptoms.

Today, Sunday, August 23, Queensland Health has released its latest list, in response to a growing number of cases it is calling the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre cluster. Spanning places in Brisbane's west and southeast, and dating between Sunday, August 9–Friday, August 21, it's a lengthy rundown.

The big ones: IKEA in Slacks Creek, covering anyone who went looking for affordable Swedish furniture between 11am–2pm on Friday, August 14; various stores at Browns Plains Grand Plaza, spanning different dates and times; a number of shops at Forest Lake Shopping Centre, again at varying dates and times; and a selection of retailers at Westfield Carindale on Wednesday, August 19. But again, this is a very comprehensive list — with places in Birkdale, Browns Plains, Camp Hill, Carina Heights, Carindale, Crestmead, Forest Lake, Greenbank, Greenslopes, Marsden, Mt Gravatt, Slacks Creek and Wacol all named.

Check out the full list of places, dates and times below:

• Sunday, August 9, from around 6.30–6.40am: IGA Express, Forest Lake
• Sunday, August 9, 11am–12.10pm: Anytime Fitness, Village Square, Browns Plains
• Sunday, August 9, 11am–12pm: Woolworths, Browns Plains, Grand Plaza Browns Plains
• Monday, August 10, from around 9.30–9.45am: Spotlight, Browns Plains
• Monday, August 10, from around 10–10.15am: Coles, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Monday, August 10, 10.15–11.25am: Anytime Fitness, Village Square, Browns Plains
• Monday, August 10, from around 11am–12.30pm: Woolworths, Browns Plains, Grand Plaza Browns Plains
• Monday, August 10, 5.30–5.40pm: Greenbank Takeaway, Greenbank
• Monday, August 10, times unknown: Woolworths, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Tuesday, August 11, from around 6–6.15am: BP Wacol (Corner of Boundary and Progress roads), Wacol
• Tuesday, August 11, from around 10.30–11.45am: Mt Gravatt Swimming Pool, Mt Gravatt
• Tuesday, August 11, from around 12pm until an unknown time: Dami Japanese Restaurant, Mt Gravatt
• Wednesday, August 12, from around 4.30–5pm: Woolworths, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Wednesday, August 12, 6–6.15pm: Thai Antique, Carina Heights
• Wednesday, August 12, from around 7.15pm until an unknown time: Coles, Browns Plains, Grand Plaza Browns Plains
• Thursday, August 13, 11am until around 12am: Australian Nails, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Thursday, August 13, 11am–3pm: Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Thursday, August 13, from 12pm until an unknown time: Fig Tree Bakehouse, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Thursday, August 13, from after 12pm until an unknown time: Nandos, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 14, from around 10–10.10am: Officeworks, Browns Plains
• Friday, August 14, from after 10am until before 11am: Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza, Browns Plains
• Friday, August 14, 11am–2pm: Ikea, Slacks Creek
• Friday, August 14, from around 11.15–11.30am: Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre, Marsden
• Friday, August 14, 2.20–3.30pm: Anytime Fitness, Village Square, Browns Plains
• Friday, August 14, from around 2.30–3pm: Bunnings, Browns Plains
• Friday, August 14, from around 4–4.30pm: Aldi, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 14, from around 4–4.30pm: Coles, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Saturday, August 15, from around 9.30–9.45am: K-Mart, Browns Plains Grand Plaza, Browns Plains
• Saturday, August 15, 10.25–11.35am: Anytime Fitness, Village Square Browns Plains
• Sunday, August 16, from around 10–10.15am: Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre, Marsden
• Sunday, August 16, from around 10.30–11am: Coles, Browns Plains Grand Plaza, Browns Plains
• Sunday, August 16, 12.10–12.15pm: 7-11 service station, Springfield
• Sunday, August 16, 1.20–2.30pm: Anytime Fitness, Village Square, Browns Plains
• Sunday, August 16, at an unknown time in the morning: Riverlink Shopping Centre, Ipswich
• Sunday, August 16, at an unknown time in the morning: The Reject Shop, Ipswich
• Sunday, August 16, at an unknown time in the morning: Jamaica Blue coffee shop, Ipswich
• Monday, August 17, 11am–1pm: Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Indooroopilly
• Monday, August 17, 11am–1pm: BUPA, Indooroopilly
• Monday, August 17, 11am–1pm: Origin Kebabs, Indooroopilly
• Monday, August 17, 11.30–2pm: Calamvale Shopping Centre, Calamvale
• Monday, August 17, from around 6.30–6.40pm: Greenbank Takeaway, Greenbank
• Monday, August 17, at an unknown time in the afternoon: Costco Bundamba self-service fuel station, Bundamba
• Tuesday, August 18, from around 12.30–1pm: BCF, Greenslopes
• Tuesday, August 18, from 1pm until an unknown time in the afternoon: Rock and Roll Butcher (formerly Brisbane Bulk Meats), Logan Road, Greenslopes
• Tuesday, August 18, at an unknown time in the afternoon: Chemist Warehouse (on Waratah Drive), Crestmead
• Tuesday, August 18, 5.45–6.15pm: Uncle Bill's Takeaway, Brassall
• Tuesday, August 18, 6.05–6.12pm: United Fuels, Springfield
• Tuesday, August 18, at an unknown time in the evening: BP Wacol (Corner of Boundary and Progress roads), Wacol
• Wednesday, August 19, 8–9.30am: 12 RND Fitness, Birkdale
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 9.30am until an unknown time: Woolworths, Browns Plains Grand Plaza, Browns Plains
• Wednesday, August 19, 10.30–11.45am: The Jam Pantry, Greenslopes
• Wednesday, August 19, 11–11.10am: Officeworks, Ipswich
• Wednesday, August 19, 12.30pm until around 1pm: Red Cross Op Shop, Sherwood Road, Sherwood
• Wednesday, August 19, 12.30–1pm: Sherwood Transport and Main Roads Customer Service Centre, Sherwood
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 1–3pm: Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre, Carindale
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 1–3pm: Bras 'n' Things, Westfield Carindale, Carindale
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 1–3pm: Ghanda clothing, Westfield Carindale, Carindale
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 1–3pm: Myer, Westfield Carindale Carindale
• Wednesday, August 19, 1–4pm: Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Indooroopilly
• Wednesday, August 19, 1–4pm: Myer, Indooroopilly
• Wednesday, August 19, 1–4pm: David Jones, Indooroopilly
• Wednesday, August 19, 1–4pm: Touch of Indian, Indooroopilly
• Wednesday, August 19, 1–4pm: Sweets from Heaven, Indooroopilly
• Wednesday, August 19, 1.10pm until around 1.20pm: Newsagent on Sherwood Road, Sherwood
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 5.30–5.40pm: Baskin Robbins, Camp Hill Market Place, Camp Hill
• Wednesday, August 19, from around 5.30–5.40pm: Pho Inn, Camp Hill Market Place, Camp Hill
• Wednesday, August 19, 7.30–7.35pm: 7-11, Springfield
• Wednesday, August 19–Thursday, August 20, 11pm–6.19am: Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department, Ipswich
• Thursday, August 20, from around 10–10.15am: Woolworths, Marsden on Fifth shopping centre, Marsden
• Thursday, August 20, 12.05–12.13pm: USQ Campus Cafe, Springfield
• Thursday, August 20, 3.15–4pm: Coles, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 21, from around 10.30–10.45am: Woolworths, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 21, from around 10.45–11.15am: The Chop Shop, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 21, from around 10.45–11.15am: Best & Less, Forest Lake Shopping Centre, Forest Lake
• Friday, August 21, 4.15–5pm: Orion Shopping Centre Springfield, Springfield

Qld Health is maintaining an active register of locations that have been visited by positive COVID-19 cases, which you can check out on its website. You can find a rundown of testing clinic locations online as well.

Today's alert follows the announcement yesterday, Saturday, August 22, of reinstated social gathering restrictions in the Greater Brisbane area — capping visitors to homes at 10 people, and limiting groups amassing in public to the same number.

For more information about the status of COVID-19 in Queensland, head to the QLD COVID-19 hub and the Queensland Health website.

Top image: IKEA; Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Kgbo via Wikimedia Commons.