Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, and other parts of Queensland state will enter a snap COVID-19 lockdown starting on Saturday, as authorities race to contain an emerging outbreak of the Delta strain.
Millions of residents in the city and several other areas will be placed under stay-at-home orders from Saturday afternoon for three days, Deputy Premier of Queensland Steven Miles says.
“The only way to beat the Delta strain is to move quickly, to be fast and to be strong,” Miles says.
Six new cases were reported on Saturday in a cluster of the Delta variant initially linked to a school student, resulting in pupils and teachers at two schools being placed into isolation.
Genome sequencing had connected the cluster to returned overseas travelers in hotel quarantine, but the exact source of transmission remains unclear, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says.
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