Greater Brisbane is about to go into a three-day lockdown: Here’s what you need to know

After several months of enjoying relaxed restrictions, from this evening, more than 1 million residents across Greater Brisbane will be placed back into lockdown.

The tough and sudden measures have been brought in to try and contain a potential “catastrophic” outbreak of a highly contagious strain of COVID-19, which escaped hotel quarantine in the city.

This means people from Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Moreton Bay and the Redlands council areas will again have to abide by strict directives for at least the next three days — here is what you can and cannot do:

During the three-day ‘stay at home’ order

From 6:00pm today until 6:00pm on Monday, anyone who lives in those five local government areas are not allowed to leave their homes for…