Travel restrictions wind back for Easter after Brisbane lockdown

Greater Brisbane residents were free to travel across the state and cross some domestic borders heading into the Easter long weekend after the region’s three-day lockdown ended.

Lifting stay-at-home orders spanning the Brisbane, Redlands, Ipswich, Logan and Moreton Bay council regions from noon on Thursday, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urged other jurisdictions to also wind back travel restrictions while declaring Queensland was “not out of the woods yet”.

Just one new case of community transmission was reported by Queensland Health on Thursday amid a second record-breaking day of testing rates above 30,000, giving authorities confidence wider spread of the coronavirus was not occurring.

The sole local case was linked to an existing…