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At least 45 people have died after a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines, officials say, as rescue and recovery operations continue amid the country's worst military air disaster in decades.

The C-130 military plane was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu province on Sunday when it missed the runway on the island of Jolo, CNN Philippines reported, citing Armed Forces Chief Cirilito Sobejana.

The plane, which was carrying more than 90 military personnel and crew, crashed into nearby Patikul village at 11.30am on Sunday (1.30pm AEST).

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"Minutes after the crash, troops and civilian volunteers rushed to the site for search and rescue. Per eyewitnesses, a number of soldiers were seen jumping out of the aircraft before it hit the ground sparing them from the explosion caused by the crash," according to a press release by Joint Task Force Sulu.

Images from a local TV station appeared to show the burning wreck of the plane and thick smoke billowing from the village. A large plume of smoke is seen in images of the crash rising up through the palms to the blue sky.

Among those killed are 42 military personnel and three civilians. Of the 53 people injured, 49 are military personnel and four are civilians, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said. The civilians killed and injured were on the ground at the site of the crash.

Five military personnel who were on board the plane were still missing, the army said.

At least 50 people were hospitalised after the crash, with some being evacuated to the city of "Zamboanga to undergo further treatment," according to the statement.

Joint Task Force Sulu Commander William N Gonzales said the "individuals were supposed to report to their battalions today.

"They were supposed to join us in our fight against terrorism," he said.

Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana said the plane was carrying 92 people on board, including three pilots and five crew members. The rest were army personnel reporting for duty, Lorenzana said in a statement, according to CNN Philippines.

Military and civilian firefighters have been deployed to put out the fire and rescue operations are focused on pulling survivors from the crash site, according to CNN Philippines.

This is the country's worst military air disaster in about 30 years, Reuters reported. In 1993, a Philippines Air Force C-130 crashed, killing 30 people.

The Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft had recently arrived in the Philippines. It was one of two aircraft granted by the US government's military financing program, according to a US government website announcement in February.

Sunday's crash came weeks after a newly acquired S-70i Black Hawk utility helicopter crashed during a night flight about 60 miles north of the capital Manila. All six people on board died, according to CNN Philippines.

The military personnel were supposed to bolster the battalions fighting against Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino jihadi group based in Sulu that has been involved in bomb attacks and piracy for decades. The group proclaimed allegiance to ISIS in 2014.

When President Joe Biden welcomes 1000 essential workers and military personnel on the South Lawn this weekend to mark Independence Day, it will fulfil – and even exceed – his prediction from March that July 4th gatherings this year would look more like they used to.

But underneath the jubilation is a gnawing concern that pockets of the United States remain in the grips of the pandemic, awash in cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant and populated with people who refuse to get vaccinated.

Even as a crowded South Lawn represents scenes of celebration across the country, concerns about the continuing spread of the virus remain strong inside the administration, which announced this week it would dispatch response teams across the US to communities where officials are worried about a potentially deadly combination: low vaccination rates and a significant presence of the highly transmissible form of the virus.

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In private meetings, Biden has questioned advisers about the broader impact the highly contagious variant could have on the US, according to people present. He still receives a daily report on case rates, the number of deaths and the prevalence of variants. Officials have stressed that vaccinated people are safe, while those who are unvaccinated are the most at risk.

In a sign that the pandemic is far from over, officials also said the administration plans to extend the public health emergency declaration for the pandemic that former President Donald Trump announced in 2020 when it's due to expire this month.

And foreign travel to countries where the Delta variant is resurgent, including the United Kingdom, is still on hold as officials hope to avoid new cases coming in to the US, despite heightened pressure from foreign governments and the travel industry to open up.

The rise of the Delta variant in the UK is the "primary reason" the US has not eased travel restrictions there, a senior health official told CNN.

An administration official said the goal is to reopen international travel when it can be done safely but did not provide updates on when that's expected to happen. There are working groups between the US and other nations that are constantly evaluating the situation.

The competing impulses to celebrate progress against the virus while maintaining vigilance against further spread have coloured the White House's approach to the second pandemic-era Fourth of July holiday.

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Celebrating and worrying at the same time

Mr Biden has come down overwhelmingly on the side of celebration, dispatching his wife, the Vice President and other senior members of his administration to declare "America's back together" at parades, cookouts and fire stations across the country.

Mr Biden himself travelled Saturday to Traverse City, Michigan, where the annual Cherry Festival is underway again after officials cancelled it last year.

There was some concern inside the White House about the optics of the July 4th party, with the Delta variant creeping its way across vulnerable populations of the US, according to one official. But there was never consideration of cancelling the event.

Guests were advised to get a test up to three days before the party, but won't be required to have been vaccinated. Masks for vaccinated people won't be required, in keeping with current guidelines from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Do we wish we were doing this having completely eradicated COVID? Yes, of course," said the official, who said there was never discussion about pulling the plug on the party.

"We're moving ahead, with this event, with the initiatives, with trying to get people vaccinated. All of it."

Mr Biden hoped to proclaim this weekend that 70 per cent of American adults had received at least one COVID-19 shot. But officials acknowledged more than a week ago the goal wouldn't be met as they struggle to convince still-resistant Americans to get shots.

About 67 per cent of Americans 18 and older had received at least one shot, according to CDC data reported Saturday.

For Mr Biden and his aides, reality is setting in that getting the entire country vaccinated will be the work of his entire presidency – and that pockets of the nation where vaccination rates remain low will continue to suffer outbreaks that hamper the nationwide recovery effort.

Most US adults who plan to get vaccinated against COVID-19 have already done so, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report released this week.

While they have declined to rule it out, officials do not currently expect Biden to set any more numerical goals when it comes to vaccinations, given the US has still not reached his last one and the pace of vaccinations has slowed significantly, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Instead, officials plan to simply push to get as many Americans vaccinated as soon as possible.

A recent CNN analysis of the most recent vaccination data from the CDC finds that more than one in 10 Americans have missed their second shot. Officials say it is more vital than ever that Americans receive their second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, since protection against the Delta strain is dramatically bolstered with the additional dose.

New questions have also emerged over whether mask mandates could return should the variant cause a spike in cases – a possibility the White House has sought to publicly dispel after trumpeting the lifting of mask recommendations earlier this spring.

Dr Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, said Thursday the Delta variant of coronavirus remains a serious threat in the United States and could cause more COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths in unvaccinated communities – especially those in the Southeast and Midwest.

"Looking state by state and county by county, it is clear that communities where people remain unvaccinated are communities that remain vulnerable," Dr Walensky said.

'It will be better next year'

She said as the Delta variant continues to spread in the US, the nation has seen a recent increase in its seven-day average of COVID-19 cases.

On Wednesday, the CDC reported 14,875 new cases of COVID-19. The nation's current seven-day average is about 12,600 cases per day.

Mr Biden said Friday he is not concerned about another widespread COVID outbreak – but acknowledged he was wary of unvaccinated people catching the Delta variant at holiday gatherings.

"I am concerned that people who have not gotten vaccinated have the capacity to catch the variant and spread it to other people who have not been vaccinated," Mr Biden told reporters at an event on the economy.

"I am not concerned that there's going to be a major outbreak."

Mr Biden reiterated his fears that "lives will be lost" should more people continue to resist getting vaccines.

"Don't think about yourself, think about your family. Think about those around you," he said.

"That is what we should be thinking about today. The Fourth of July this year is different than the Fourth of July last year and it will be better next year."

In some ways, this weekend is the moment Mr Biden predicted two months into his presidency, standing in the Cross Hall of the White House.

"If we do our part, if we do this together, by July the Fourth there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighbourhood and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day," Mr Biden said in March, a long red carpet stretching behind him, setting a months-away goal for returning the country to normal.

Officials insist the relative normalcy of this year's holiday compared to the months spent under social distancing and mask restrictions was a signal Mr Biden's strategy had worked.

"The Fourth of July is a moment for us to step back and celebrate our progress. We have made tremendous progress in our fight against the virus," said Jeff Zients, the President's coronavirus response coordinator.

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"At the same time," he went on, "there's a lot more work to do."

Much of that work has shifted to states where the combination of low vaccination rates and high caseloads have caused fears of backsliding.

"We are now going in the wrong direction yet again with COVID-19 infections here in the state of Arkansas," said Dr Cam Patterson, chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, during the state's weekly briefing last week.

'The message is: Get vaccinated'

Hoping to target the regional outbreaks, the White House said last week it was deploying response teams to conduct surge testing, provide therapeutics like monoclonal antibodies and deploy federal personnel to areas that need support staff for vaccinations.

The White House coronavirus team is spearheading the effort and officials expect the teams will help with everything from boosting testing and providing supplies to potentially increasing paid media efforts targeting regions where vaccinations are low.

Still, while the response teams are being sent to prop up communities, officials believe vaccinations are the number one way to stop the spread and recognise there could be a limit to their efforts.

Already, the administration has shifted its strategy from focusing on mass vaccination sites to more targeted efforts to get people shots. Health officials have narrowed their focus to young people in particular, who account for a large number of the still-unvaccinated. They also remain focused on minorities, whose vaccination rates lag behind the white population.

Recognising the concern over the variant, the Biden administration flooded television networks with top federal health officials last week to address concerns ahead of the July 4th weekend.

And officials sought to balance what is undoubtedly a moment to mark progress against the virus with the nagging problem that large swaths of the country still appear resistant to vaccines.

"You can still celebrate at the same time as you get your message very, very clear: if you were vaccinated, you have a high degree of protection. If you are not, you should wear a mask, and you should think very seriously about getting vaccinated," Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Thursday.

"So, in so many respects, nothing has really changed," Dr Fauci said.

"We are celebrating as a country at the same time as we recognise the fact that we're in a serious situation for those who have not been vaccinated. And the message is: Get vaccinated."

Two men have been charged with murder following the death of a motorcyclist on the Gold Coast hinterland.

Detectives from Gold Coast criminal investigation branch this evening charged a 28-year-old Mitchelton man and a 29-year-old Narangba man.

Police will allege the two men were travelling in a vehicle at Natural Bridge, about 30 kilometres west of Coolangatta, when the 28-year-old rider from Bracalba crashed about 10.10 am on Friday.

The rider sustained life-threating injuries and died at the scene.

The circumstances surrounding the incident are still under investigation.

"The Mitchelton man was arrested late yesterday afternoon on the Sunshine Coast," Queensland police said in a statement.

"The 29-year-old Narangba man surrendered into custody at the Laidley police station shortly after 2am on Saturday."

Both men were refused bail. They are due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow.

Search and rescue efforts at the partially-collapsed South Florida condo will temporarily pause as officials prepare for the demolition of the building's remaining units, officials said Saturday.

The search and rescue operation paused at 4pm (6am AEST), Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a news conference.

Officials are waiting on instructions from the engineers who are inspecting the site and will resume search and rescue when they are cleared to do so.

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Levine Cava did not provide a timeline for the planned demolition, but officials said earlier a crew could demolish the remaining units of Champlain Towers South as soon as Sunday, ahead of the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa.

Otherwise, Elsa's winds, which might reach the area early next week, could topple the structure unsafely, officials said.

"So it has been determined … as the process is underway that we need to put a temporary pause," Levine Cava said.

"And we are continuing to receive updates about the condition of the standing structure and we will begin the search and rescue once again on any sections of the pile that are safe to access as soon as we are cleared."

Nearly 55 of the 136 units of the Champlain Towers South, in Surfside just north of Miami Beach, pancaked to the ground in the early hours of June 24.

The number of confirmed deaths remains at 24, Levine Cava said, and 121 people remain unaccounted for.

Authorities identified two additional victims in a news release Saturday night: Graciela Cattarossi, 48 and Gonzalo Torre, 81.

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One victim has not yet been identified. A seven-year-old girl was not identified by authorities but was identified by her family Saturday.

While the demolition will temporarily halt search and rescue operations in the rubble of the already-collapsed portions, searchers could resume work without fear of the standing portion coming down on them Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at an earlier news conference.

"I think as early as tomorrow (Sunday)" the standing portions could be demolished, Burkett said.

Officials' previous thinking about the timeline – that it couldn't be done before Elsa arrived – changed after they spoke late Friday with a demolition expert who indicated it could be done sooner, Levine Cava said.

"We're still very hopeful that we can do the demolition before the storm," she said Saturday evening.

"We are proceeding as quickly as we possibly can."

The forecast track for Elsa is uncertain, but even if it's centered well west of Surfside as currently predicted, its windy outer bands could hit Surfside and southeastern Florida by Tuesday, forecasters say.

Levine Cava on Friday signed an order allowing crews to demolish the remaining structure – but at the time said it could be weeks before the demolition could happen.

Demolition plans still were being made, but they would aim to take the standing portions straight down with charges, Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Alan Cominsky said Saturday morning.

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The demolition would have "a very narrow footprint" so evacuations in the area are not planned, besides temporarily moving the rescuers from the rubble, Levine Cava said.

Already-searched areas of the rubble would be covered before the demolition, Cominsky said.

Controlled Demolition Inc. would be in charge of the demolition, and has done large demolitions in the past, Levine Cava said.

Search and rescue operations continued Saturday at the site, where teams have been scouring concrete rubble up to five metres deep.

Late Friday, a county attorney said in a court filing that the remaining portion of the building is not structurally sound and is behaving in ways that indicate it may fall down.

Search and rescue crews were under "immediate threat" due to the building's instability and Tropical Storm Elsa, which currently is in Caribbean, said David Murray, the attorney for Miami-Dade County.

Murray's court filing said a collapse of the remaining structure would "cause the release of hazardous household materials, particulate matter, and will pose fire risk."

"An uncontrolled collapse of the structure — which is surrounded by residential property, and which is currently being worked and secured by hundreds of fire rescue personnel, police officers, and other government employees — poses significant risk to human life and property," Murray wrote in the filing.

Fire department confirm member's child found in the rubble

A seven-year-old girl who died in the collapse was the daughter of a member of the Miami Department of Fire and Rescue, officials said Friday.

Members of the Urban Search and Rescue Team on Florida Task Force 2 recovered the girl's body on Thursday night, Fire Chief Joseph Zahralban said in a statement.

The girl's father did not find her body, officials said, adding that other team members alerted him that night.

A relative, Nicole Mejias, identified the girl as Stella Cattarossi, who Mejias said was found dead in the rubble with her mother, Graciela Cattarossi.

Mejias said five of her family members were in the building when it collapsed, and three others remain unaccounted for: Stella's grandparents Gino and Graciela Cattarossi whom Stella and her mother lived with – and her aunt, Andrea Cattarossi.

Mejias said Andrea was visiting from Argentina, where she has three sons.

"We just miss them so much already," Mejias told CNN.

"We wish this tragedy didn't happen and will always remember them."

Captain Ignatius Carroll, a spokesperson for Florida Task Force 2, told CNN in an interview on Saturday that it was "very difficult" finding the girl, since she was the child of one of their "brother firefighters".

But it gave the girl's family "peace of mind," he said.

"And that's the goal that we have with everybody that's out there on that pile, trying to do their best in this continued search effort to reunite families with their loved ones," Carroll said.

Officials Friday released the names of three people who died in the collapse. Bonnie Epstein, 56; Claudio Bonnefoy, 85 and Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 69 were recovered over the past two days.

Three bodies and a capsized boat have been recovered during the search for a group of missing fishermen at Wollongong.

The fishermen were last seen boarding a boat that left Bellambi Beach at 2pm on Saturday.

Two were from the same family and the third was a family friend. Their ages ranged from 20 to 40.

Family members alerted authorities at 6am today when the men did not return home on time.

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Officers from Wollongong police, Marine Area Command and PolAir, and members of Surf Life Saving NSW led the search.

The upturned boat was located off Port Kembla and the three bodies have yet to be formally identified.

"We don't know of their experience however, they've been at that location several times before," NSW Police acting Inspector Jayson Joerdens said.

Surf Life Saving NSW's Anthony Turner said the search conditions were quite gusty.

"It may have been a little bit rough further out to sea," Mr Turner said.

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The ute the men were travelling in and their boat trailer were located in the boat ramp car park at Bellambi.

"It's still too early to establish exactly what went wrong with their trip out last night and that will be investigated throughout the week," Inspector Joerdens said, on Sunday.

Anyone with information is urged to contact police.

Two-thirds of the staff working at the Sydney aged care home at the centre of a new COVID-19 outbreak remain unvaccinated, the facility's manager has confirmed.

Three elderly residents at the SummitCare facility in Baulkham Hills tested positive overnight: a woman in her 80s, a man in his 80s and a man in his 90s.

Two have since been transferred to Westmead Hospital as a "precautionary measure", while the third remains in isolation with his wife at the nursing home.

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All three have been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.

The new cases come after the nursing home was placed in "full lockdown" on Friday after an unvaccinated nurse who worked there tested positive.

A second nurse at the home tested positive yesterday.

Deputy Chief Health Officer Michael Kidd said the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, the AHPPC, met again today to discuss the responses to the latest virus outbreak, particularly in NSW and the rest of the country.

"Looking at the outbreak at Summit Care, we are taking that very seriously, as we do with each outbreak in residential aged care facilities," Prof Kidd said.

"The Commonwealth is working in partnership with New South Wales and the facility staff. The facility is in full lockdown and additional work force supports have been activated and testing of residents and staff has also been activated."

Speaking at a press conference this morning, Summit Care's Chief Operating Officer Michelle Sloane said that none of the infected trio were seriously ill.

"My understanding is they're all resting very comfortably none of them were displaying symptoms," Ms Sloane said.

She noted that the two patients who were taken to hospital overnight were transferred due to "public health" considerations around isolating them.

The family of the third resident opted not to transfer him to hospital so as not to separate him from his wife, with whom he shares a room at the home, but strict infection control protocols were in place.

The man's wife has tested negative but will undergo further testing today.

Speaking at today's COVID-19 update, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said that while the residents' condition were "encouraging", continual cycles of testing and isolation procedures would remain in place at the nursing home for 14 days since their exposure to the infected worker.

The site is currently being operated largely by an emergency force of surge workers, with three-quarters of their regular staff forced into 14-day isolation.

"Of 210 staff in total, of that there's probably 70 to 75 per cent at home in isolation – it could be higher," Ms Sloane said.

"At about 2am this morning, I was having to arrange with government officials to quarantine all of the evening staff – they had to go into 14-day lockdown – so, we basically had no staff left (in that unit)."

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She said she had ensured none of her regular Baulkham Hills staff worked at any other facility, but only about one-third have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

All staff will be vaccinated on-site, but not until after the current outbreak has been dealt with.

"We've been advised that to do it now is of no benefit to anyone and if anything, it might mean that they suffer from some side effects of the vaccines and we might lose more staff," Ms Sloane said.

On Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that COVID-19 vaccines would become mandatory for aged care workers.

However, all of those workers are not expected to have their first dose until mid-September.

Asked whether she thought that target was sufficient, Ms Sloane said it was "the best we can hope for".

"I'm just happy it's been mandated," she said.

All of the residents' families have been contacted, with Ms Sloane saying she had spoken personally with the children of all the infected residents.

Deep cleaning of the aged care home and daily testing of all residents and staff continues.

Yesterday, 226 tests of residents and staff were completed and all but the three infected residents returned negative results.

Of the facility's 149 residents, 96 per cent are vaccinated.

Professor Kidd said all but one of the 2566 residential aged care facilities across Australia have today received their first and second dose of COVID-19 vaccination clinics from the national vaccine rollout program.

"The Commonwealth continues to supply personal protective equipment to affected aged care facilities, as well as providing a surge workforce to backup nurses in aged care workers in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak," he said.

He said despite low numbers in known clusters getting vaccinated remained critical in battling the pandemic.

More than 8 million doses, including over 5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, have been administered in Australia

"Please continue to get vaccinated please encourage your family members, your friends to do so, especially those aged 60, and those in the priority groups, and increased risk of exposure or an increased risk of transmitting," he said.

He also had a reminder for all Australians as we approach the middle of winter.

"This is a time when people may develop symptoms of cold or flu. But please, do not ignore these terms. It may be COVID-19. Please arrange to get tested," he said.

You can find out more details about how to book your vaccine through the Federal Government health site here.

A health bar, cafe and pharmacy on the Sunshine Coast have been added to Queensland's list of COVID-19 exposure sites.

The new venues were added after Queensland recorded just one local case of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, on the state's first full day out of lockdown.

There were more than 14,000 tests conducted and 7828 vaccines administered.

The new venues are Blended Health Bar, Eumundi Village Pharmacy and Humdrum Espresso.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the new local case was linked to the Portuguese restaurant cluster and there was one other case currently under investigation.

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The Queensland Health website is being updated with new exposure venues regularly and residents are urged to monitor it frequently.

Anybody who was at the following locations during the times in question may be considered a close contact.

This is not an extensive list, and there are more locations above and on the Queensland Health website.

Thursday, July 1

• Blended Health Bar, Shop 4/18 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 10.47am to 10.57am.
• Eumundi Village Pharmacy, 1 2/6 Etheridge Street, Eumundi, 5.13pm to 5.16pm.
• Humdrum Espresso, 100 Memorial Drive, Eumundi, 9.14am to 9.21am.
• Harvey Norman (electrical appliance section and cashier in that section, 7/9 Gibson Road, Noosaville between 10.25am to 10.40am.

Sunday, June 27

• Harris Farm Market, West End, 11.50am to 1.50pm
• Woolworths in the same complex, for five minutes at the end of the market visit from 1.45pm-1.50pm

Monday, June 28

• Greek Orthodox community centre, South Brisbane, for most of the day
• ALDI, West End, 3.25pm to 4pm

Tuesday, June 29

• Greek Orthodox community centre, South Brisbane, for most of the day
• Espresso Engine, Turbot Street, 7.20am to 7.30am and 1.10pm to 1.25pm
• Vincent Accounting Firm, Turbot Street, for most of the day
• Woolworths Metro, Turbot Street, 9.30am to 9.35am
• JB Hi-Fi, Albert Street, 12.20pm to 12.30pm
• Zara in the Queen Street Mall, 12.30pm to 12.41pm
• Mecca Maxima, Wintergarden Shopping Centre, 12.42pm to 12.50pm
• Santos Building, Turbot Street, for most of the day

Dr Maria Boulton from the Queensland AMA has urged people to be vigilant about possible exposure.

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"If you've been to an exposure site, do the right thing. If you are sick, please do the right thing (and) get tested," she said.

"Phone your doctor if you have to. But don't go around in the community if you are sick, stay home."

People can stay up to date with the latest advice at the Queensland Health website.

You can find out more details about how to book your vaccine through the Federal Government health site here.

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