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Reason for Queensland’s lockdown: 70 pc more contagious
Queensland’s chief health officer issued “strong advice” to the Premier to lock down Greater Brisbane after a hotel cleaner was diagnosed with a mutant strain of COVID-19 that is 70 per cent more contagious than the original virus.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on Friday the council areas of Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton, and Redlands would go into a strict three-day lockdown from 6pm that evening to 6pm on Monday.
The drastic measure comes as authorities battle to avoid a crippling outbreak like that in the UK, where the…
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