Doctors get extra holidays to say ‘thanks’
Queensland Minster for Health Steven Miles announces the leave as he unveils 'Health Heroes Week' to mark doctors' and nurses' efforts in the pandemic
Doctors and nurses are to be given two days’ pandemic leave as a way of saying thanks for their work during the COVID-19 crisis in Queensland.
Along with extra leave, the state’s Minister for Health Steven Miles also announced a ‘Health Heroes Week’ to mark the efforts of those who helped get the state to zero cases.
“When you are a Health Minister during a pandemic, I can assure you that ‘zero’ days are the very best days — and today is a ‘zero new cases (day)’,” he told Queensland Parliament on Thursday.
Queensland recorded no new cases that day, but on Friday, a further two cases were reported, bringing the state’s total of active cases to 28 and 1145 cases overall.
