Greater Brisbane will go into a three-day lockdown after recording 10 new cases of coronavirus, four of which are community transmission.
Key points:
- Greater Brisbane will head into lockdown from 5:00pm today
- It comes after four new cases of Coronavirus from community transmission
- Two of those cases are linked to the recent cluster
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said six of the cases were overseas acquired and four were local — two of those were linked to the 26-year-old landscaper from Stafford who tested positive to the highly infectious UK strain on Thursday night.
Two of the cases have an unknown origin.
Greater Brisbane will now go into a three-day lockdown as of 5:00pm today and masks will be mandatory.
This includes the Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Moreton and Brisbane council areas.
"Two are known cases of one of the previous people, then we have two under investigation but we believe one of them is a nurse from the PA hospital," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"Now what this says to us is the fact that there are now more community transmission and these people have been out and about in the community.
"And that is of now concern to Queensland Health and of course concern to me."
One of the other new cases has been infectious in the community while in Gladstone and health authorities are trying to identify where that person has been.
Schools closed from tomorrow
People in Greater Brisbane will only be able to leave their homes for essential reasons like grocery shopping, exercise, work and medical care.
Only two visitors are allowed at homes — outside of Greater Brisbane, gatherings are limited to 30.
Dr Young said schools and childcare centres would remain open for children of essential workers.
Ms Palaszczuk said a three-day lockdown was necessary.
"This is the UK strain. It is highly infectious," she said.
"This will also enable our health authorities to get on top of the contact tracing.
"This is a huge job now that we have to do because we've got more of this community transmission.
"I know this will mean some disruption to people's lives but we've done this before and we've got through it over those three days in the past and if everyone does the right thing, I'm sure that we will be able to get through it again."
Cluster reaches seven cases
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the new cases meant the department was now dealing with seven cases from the most recent cluster.
"The initial two gentleman, and now a brother of one of those that we think could be that link between the PA doctor who was infectious two weeks ago and this cluster," she said.
"Then we have two colleagues of the second new case that tested positive yesterday, and one of those people was in Gladstone for three days while they were infectious."
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)She said very late last night she was notified of another case, who was the PA hospital nurse who worked in the COVID-19 ward.
"But I'm not sure that's where she's acquired it. We will have to wait for genome sequencing results," she said.
"Her sister is also positive, and we're not sure where the transmission has happened there.
"They have recently been in Byron Bay during their infectious period.
"So we now have significant community transmission and significant numbers of venues of concern all through Brisbane."
The restrictions will be reviewed on Wednesday night.
Ms Palaszczuk urged people not to panic buy and said supermarkets were well stocked.
"I know in is a really big call, I know it is really tough," she said.
"We have Easter coming up, we have school holidays coming up but let's do it now and let's do it right, and let's see if we can come through it at the other end."
The Premier has declared Greater Brisbane a hotspot and has urged other state and territory leaders to do the same.
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