Brisbane to go into lockdown

Under the new lockdown which will come into force at 5 p.m., residents in Greater Brisbane since March 20 must stay at home except for four reasons…reports Asian Lite News

Australia’s third largest city of Brisbane will enter a three-day lockdown on Monday as locally-acquired Covid-19 cases continued to grow with some infections’ origin unknown.

On Monday, the state of Queensland, with Brisbane as its capital city, recorded four local cases and six detected in travellers in hotel quarantine out of 11,626 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, which put the active cases to 73, reports Xinhua news agency.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told a press conference that among the four community transmission, two were linked to previous cases and two were under investigation.

One of the two cases with unknown origin is believed to be a nurse from the Princess Alexandra Hospital where a doctor was tested positive earlier this month.

“What this said to us is the fact that there are now more community transmissions and these people have been out about in the community and that is of concern to Queensland Health and me,” she said.

“What this means for Greater Brisbane is that we will have to go into a three-day lockdown. This is the mutant strain detected in Britain. It is highly infectious.”

Under the new lockdown which will come into force at 5 p.m., residents in Greater Brisbane and anyone who has been in Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich or Redlands since March 20 must stay at home except for four reasons including buying essentials, working or studying if they cannot do either from home, exercising in local areas, and healthcare or to providing help, care or support.

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