Blackwater coronavirus death remains a mystery as link to nurse investigated

Health authorities said they have no reason to link Mr Turner's case with a nurse whose diagnosis sent an aged-care home in Rockhampton into lockdown, however the matter is being investigated further today.

The Health Department has confirmed the nurse, who has since been suspended, had travelled from Rockhampton to Blackwater, on May 14.

However, Queensland Health said they did not believe the two cases were linked given Mr Turner had been showing symptoms before this date.

"Contact tracing information provided to Queensland Health for the Central Queensland case identified on May 14 was that the individual travelled to Blackwater in the second week of May but did not interact with other individuals there," a spokesperson said in a statement.

Mr Miles said the nurse initially advised contact tracers that she had visited Blackwater to "watch a sunset".

Mr Miles said that if the Rockhampton nurse's trip was for a non-essential reason she would have been breaching another health directive.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said a second coronavirus sample that was taken from Mr Turner was negative but was considered invalid.

It is not clear what mine Mr Turner had been working at, however Central Highlands Mayor Kerry Hayes said local mines were continuing to operate.

Dr Young said authorities have the capacity to test 10,000 people a day