COVID-19 to be monitored ‘much like we treat the flu’: health minister
Queensland's traffic light pandemic advisory system is to end, as hospitalised influenza cases outstrip COVID-19 patients.
Queensland’s traffic light advisory for COVID-19 will be scrapped, with the virus to be monitored “like any other respiratory illness,” the state’s Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has announced.
“The traffic lights, as Queenslanders have come to know them, will end from today,” Ms Fentiman told reporters on Friday.
“COVID-19 does not pose the same threat that it once did, and we are going to treat it much like we treat the flu.”
The traffic light system was introduced in October 2022, when certain pandemic powers expired, and the three levels of advice were designed to recognise and respond to the current risk of the virus.
