The ACT’s stay-at-home requirements for people who have been in 11 South East Queensland LGAs have been extended until Sunday 8 August.

The extension is in line with the Queensland Government’s decision this morning to extend the lockdown for 11 local government areas (LGAs) in response to the growing COVID-19 outbreak.

ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said there are currently more than 2,500 people in the ACT under stay-at-home requirements after having been in the affected Queensland LGAs.

“So we will continue obviously to monitor the situation in Queensland and to respond accordingly as we are also monitoring the situation in Sydney and the surrounding NSW region.”

Anyone entering the ACT on or after 21 July from the Queensland LGAs of: City of Brisbane, Moreton Bay Region, City of Gold Coast, City of Ipswich, Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Logan City, Noosa Shire Council, Redland City, Scenic Rim Regional Council, Somerset Regional Council or Sunshine Coast Regional Council must abide by the stay-at-home orders.

Non-ACT residents entering from these areas will need an approved exemption to come into the Territory.

Ms Stephen-Smith urged people to keep ACT Health up to date with their whereabouts if they’ve been told to abide by the stay-at-home requirements.

“I do want to remind people who might have been in Queensland recently, you would have had to fill out a declaration on return to the ACT from any of those 11 local government areas that are affected.

“If ACT Health has sent you a text to tell you that you need to take action and you need to stay at home, please make sure that you actually acknowledge that and you complete a new form in relation to the new stay-at-home requirements of Queensland.”

She said anyone who has received correspondence from ACT Health who is no longer in the ACT should let authorities know.

“It’s really, really important that we have a good understanding of where everybody is at in terms of anyone who’s returned from Queensland on or since the 21st of July.”

Queensland recorded 13 new cases of the virus today, as state health authorities try to determine lines of transmission at high-risk exposure sites like schools and public transport routes.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young said today it’s inevitable there will be more positive cases before the effects of the lockdown kick in, with health officials still trying to work out exactly how the virus has spread.

“[The extension] will make it an eight-day lockdown,” Queensland Acting Premier Steven Miles told reporters.

“We desperately hope that that will be sufficient for our contact tracers to get … absolutely anyone who could have been exposed to the Delta strain.”

The ACT once again recorded no cases of COVID-19 today.

With AAP

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