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Queensland Has Declared Greater Melbourne a COVID-19 Hotspot and Has Its Borders to the City – Concrete Playground
If you’re a Queenslander with a trip to Melbourne in your future — or vice versa — the pandemic has just interrupted your plans. With the Victorian capital currently in day one of a snap five-day lockdown in attempt to contain the Holiday Inn COVID-19 cluster, the Sunshine State has declared the area a coronavirus hotspot. And, as a result, Queensland has closed its borders to the city.
The change was announced yesterday, Friday, February 12, and came into effect at 1am today, Saturday February 13. It specifically applies to Greater Melbourne, with 36 Local Government Areas in the region all now considered hotspots by the Queensland government.
Accordingly, folks who’ve been in Greater Melbourne are no longer be permitted to enter…
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