Supercars is expected to monitor whether the team of workers may have been exposed to COVID-19 as a component of a new viral alert in Queensland.
The northeastern state is the newest to face the prospect of a momentary wave, after two teenagers allegedly forged documents after travelling from Melbourne to Brisbane Sydney on July 21.
As a result, they moved away from quarantine upon arrival and visited several locations in southeast Queensland before testing positive for COVID-19.
The list of venues includes schools, restaurants, a bar and a grocery store in spaces south of Brisbane, raising potential exposure issues for the team’s staff, most of whom are lately between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Autosport understands that Supercars has asked all groups to tell them if any members have visited the corporations involved.
There are fears in Queensland that the alleged infiltration of the border could cause a new wave of network transmission, which paralyzed Melbourne and left Sydney on the knife’s edge.
However, Queensland-based supercar groups have little selection yet to remain adjusted for the time being, as they enter the Northern Territory until at least next Monday due to the 14-day cooling era after the last circular in Sydney, which is a declared hotspot.
Supercars has carried out the normal COVID-19 tests with body of workers on site 3 laps since the resumption of the season, adding the drivers and the team and personnel of the organization.
So far, there have been no cases.
With the first revisions of the 2020 calendar thrown out of the window due to the COVID-19 epidemic in Melbourne, the Australian series is now underway.
The five groups in the Victorian capital have already fled their residency status and are now in southeast Queensland Sydney.
This opened the door to a northern swing.
By next Monday, a two-week cooling era in greater Sydney’s dominance, which is also at the coronavirus rupture point, will be over and free to leave Queensland and enter the Northern Territory.
A double header in Hidden Valley on August 8-9 and 15-16 is already blocked, and Autosport includes another double header in Townsville on weekends from August 29-30 and September 5-6, the Commission on Tuesday lit up in green. Meeting.
As things stand, and they remain in the brain that the scenario is becoming, it turns out that the characteristics are rushing or waiting.
An urgent technique would be to keep Victorian groups on the road, take part in as many races as imaginable in September and October, and finish the season with Bathurst 1000 or a night race in Sydney some time later.
This means that the Victorian would be touring for a long time, but the eulogy would be a transparent end date and the promise of a big and long break before the circus resumes in Adelaide next February.
Exhausted, yes, but it’s perhaps the least difficult solution. Rumors of a road to Queensland Raceway have resurfaced in recent days, with discussions about a straight double.
The concept will not be displayed or denied through the Supercars, but it makes sense. If the season had stopped after Bathurst, there would have been 11 rounds, enough to crown a champion and meet the demands of television.
The other option is to accept as true with the declining numbers in Melbourne (the new instances reached a record 534 on Monday but went back to 295 on Wednesday) and expect us to temporarily return to where we were in early June. . – things are almost back to normal.
But that doesn’t replace the fact that Western Australia and Tasmania, whether in pencil by November, are still closed to the rest of Australia.
And the Victorian epidemic has left the prime ministers of state nervous and behind in the border openings.