Parts of Queensland locked down as two cases emerge

From 6:00pm tonight large parts of Queensland will go into a snap three day lockdown following two cases of community transmission. “This leaves us with no option. I foreshadowed yesterday that if we have got multiple issues happening across the south-east and some risk exposure in Townsville, regional Queensland, we have got that outbreak that risk linked to the Portuguese restaurant we mentioned the other day,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said. “We have got the flight attendant from Sydney who came up on multiple flights. There is a lot of contact tracing happening there, so the risk is real and we need to act quickly. “We need to go hard and we need to go fast. I want to say to everyone, I know we are in the middle of school holidays and I know people have made plans but we have just got to do this. We have got to do this for three days, there will be a lock down for three days and I don’t want it to be 30 days. “From 6:00pm tonight, until 6:00pm on Friday, South East Queensland, Townsville city, Palm Island and Magnetic Island will go into lock down. South East Queensland includes all of the 11 local government areas listed yesterday.” Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au