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A COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, Melbourne.(Getty)
People who have been in orange zones can obtain a permit to enter Victoria but must isolate on entry, get tested within 72 hours, and stay isolated until they receive a negative result.
All arrivals into Victoria must apply for a travel permit even if they are entering from a green zone.
Any close contacts of a positive COVID-19 case, including anyone who has been to a high-risk exposure site, is not allowed to enter Victoria.
Exceptions and exemptions are listed on Victoria s travel permit website.
Queensland recorded two Covid cases overnight. A woman from the Sunshine Coast tested positive to the Delta strain of the virus, resulting in the reintroduction of masks in south-east Queensland
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk - AAP
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Southeast Queensland is on the verge of a lockdown after recording two new local cases of COVID-19, with the government moving to mandate wearing face masks.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says one new case is believed to the Alpha strain and linked to cluster involving the Portuguese Family Centre in Brisbane.
The other is a case of the Delta strain, a close contact of a miner who was out in the Sunshine Coast town of Bli Bli after becoming infected at a Northern Territory mine.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young is more concerned about 169 other workers who arrived in the state from the same mine and are still being tested.
Only 30 people are allowed inside private homes.
Wedding numbers will also be restricted to 100, with only 20 allowed to dance. Funerals will be limited to 100 mourners.
At hospitality venues, there is no dancing or standing.
Ms Palaszczuk again pressed for federal quarantine facilities and urged people to get vaccinated.
Concern over COVID case out in community
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said one of the two positive cases was already in quarantine and not of concern.
But the other case, that of the female miner, had been out in the community for one day while infectious. She was with her family and they started a road trip and immediately came back, Dr Young said.