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Mask rules should be scrapped, experts say
Masks should not be mandatory in Greater Brisbane after Friday unless social distancing is impossible, say leading academics.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has stopped short of declaring masks would no longer be mandatory from Friday (1 am) when other restrictions are set to ease, but epidemiologists want to see the rule scrapped while there is no community transmission.
Greater Brisbane residents were forced into a 72-hour lockdown on January 8 and masks were mandatory in public, even when travelling alone in a car.
The restrictions were…
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