Eight new locally-acquired cases overnight as Greater Brisbane enters first day in lockdown

Queensland’s COVID-19 cluster has grown overnight, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announcing 10 new cases overnight, eight of those locally-acquired.

She said six are close contacts of confirmed cases, and two others are still under investigation.

“But we believe that they are also linked to the two people,” she said.

It comes as Brisbane enters its first day of a snap three-day lockdown, introduced after health authorities revealed a COVID-19 cluster involving the highly contagious UK strain had grown to seven people yesterday.

Among them is a nurse at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and her sister, who both visited Byron Bay during their infectious period.

The nurse, who wasn’t vaccinated, is the second public hospital frontline…