Qld Covid: Brisbane to go into snap three-day lockdown after cluster grows to seven cases

Two women who travelled to Bryon Bay in NSW while infectious are among the four new local cases of the UK variant of coronavirus
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Greater Brisbane will go into to a three-day snap lockdown from 5pm Monday, after authorities detected four new locally acquired coronavirus cases.

The state’s chief health officer, Jeannette Young, described the growing cluster of seven cases as “significant community transmission” of the UK variant of the virus and warned people to stay at home in the coming days.

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