The Royal Queensland Show has been officially cancelled after Queensland recorded another 13 coronavirus cases outside of hotel quarantine.
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The announcement was made during the state government's COVID-19 press conference at 10am this morning.
Due to the increase in cases overnight the initial three-day snap lockdown will also be extended until this Sunday.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said they couldn't afford to have an event like the Ekka take place when people travelled into town.
"The risk is too great," he said.
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This is only the fourth time the Royal Queensland Show has been cancelled; 1919 due to the Spanish Flu epidemic, 1942 when the grounds were used as a World War II staging depot and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cancellation of the entire event comes after the stud cattle show was cancelled on Sunday.
Queensland Ag Shows general manager Trevor Beckingham also released a statement revealing the young judges and paraders competitions for stud, dairy and prime cattle would also be postponed.
He said the competitions would be run later this year.
"Similarly, although the Ekka prime beef competition will continue to be held at Silverdale there will be no public access," he said.
"We have had no choice other than to, regrettably, postpone the Prime Beef Young Judges competition that was to be conducted on Wednesday August 4."