Queensland issues COVID update after first night in lockdown

Queensland has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 as the state continues to battle to contain the more transmissible UK variant of the virus.

“Very good news overnight. We have had zero new cases. So congratulations, everyone,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters on Saturday.

“Of course, we are monitoring the situation very closely over the next two days.”

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young, however, said the state had been notified by Victorian authorities late on Friday…