Australian city to shut down over seven cases

Australian city to shut down over seven cases

By Onlykhabar News Media Mon 29 March, 2021 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤516 Viewersinternational

 Australian city of Brisbane will enter another snap three-day lockdown to contain a coronavirus outbreak which has grown to seven cases.

The Queensland state capital - home to over two million residents - will begin the lockdown at 17:00 Monday local time (06:00 GMT). The Brisbane outbreak, first reported on Saturday, marks the first cluster of community transmissions in Australia in almost a month. The city has seen very few locally acquired cases since Australia's first wave of the virus a year ago. Health officials are yet to determine how the virus leaked into the community, but say it is potentially linked to a hospital doctor who was infectious two weeks ago.

After the lockdown was announced, locals rushed to shops to stock up on goods despite officials urging this was unnecessary. Video online also showed plane passengers in Sydney scrambling to disembark a flight bound for Brisbane after learning of the announcement. A lockdown was necessary to help contact tracers contain the spread, she said. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the discovery of four more local cases, reported on Monday, showed there was "more community transmission" in the city. 

The lockdown will affect the Greater Brisbane area, which includes the councils of Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich and Redlands. As with previous lockdowns, people will only be able to leave their homes for four essential reasons: exercise, shopping, necessary work and caregiving. Schools and workplaces will be closed as well as non-essential businesses and services.  Lockdowns have proved to be an effective health measure but the unpredictable shutdowns of cities have left a significant economic toll, experts say. Australia's domestic tourism industry has been particularly hit hard, with states often shutting their borders to people from declared hotspots. Interstate travel to and from Brisbane will now be restricted until it's no longer listed as a virus hotspot.

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