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Deputy premier Steven Miles has announced a snap lockdown of 11 LGAs in Queensland. Check our full guide for the new update to Qld coronavirus restrictions and rules, including wearing face masks, around Brisbane and in SEQ local government areas. Photograph: Darren England/AAP
Deputy premier Steven Miles has announced a snap lockdown of 11 LGAs in Queensland. Check our full guide for the new update to Qld coronavirus restrictions and rules, including wearing face masks, around Brisbane and in SEQ local government areas. Photograph: Darren England/AAP
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Tue 3 Aug 2021 20.12 EDT
Last modified on Tue 3 Aug 2021 20.51 EDT
The Queensland government has extended its snap lockdown until 4pm Sunday 8 August for 11 local government areas in south-east Queensland.
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New exposure sites for Springfield Central, Pullenvale, Woolloongabba, Sunnybank, Brisbane City and Southport
A public health alert is being issued for contact tracing locations in Springfield Central, Pullenvale, Woolloongabba, Sunnybank, Brisbane City and Southport.
This is a reminder for all Queenslanders to keep checking the list of exposure venues on the Queensland Health website and follow the public health advice.
If you have any COVID-19 symptoms at any time, no matter how mild, you should immediately get tested for COVID-19.
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“I am still concerned though that we don’t know how this outbreak has happened, so we know the very first two cases that arrived into Queensland on the 29th of June, but I don’t know how it s got from either of those two people to the first family. “We do need to continue testing throughout all of those 11 [local government areas] and throughout Queensland. It s really important so we can just make sure we don t have any other transmission events any other outbreaks happening.” Young said on Monday she was expecting more cases to be identified, considering that some of the already confirmed cases were infectious in the community for days. One of Monday’s cases was in the community for six days before going into quarantine.
Cairns and Yarrabah areas have gone into a snap lockdown as restrictions ease in south-east Queensland’s 11 LGAs. Here’s the full list of what you can and can’t do