Queensland has recorded six new locally-acquired cases linked to an Indooroopilly High School student, prompting a strict three-day lockdown of a large section of the state’s southeast.
From 4pm on Saturday 11 local government areas will go into the harshest restrictions the sunshine state has seen.
The six new cases are made up of four family members of the 17-year-old female Indooroopilly student, a medical student at the University of Queensland who tutors the teen and a staff member of the lronside State School.
Deputy premier Steven Miles announced the measures on Saturday morning saying: “We must go hard and go early”.
Residents in the affected lockdown areas can only leave home for four reasons – essential work, study or childcare, to exercise, buy food and supplies, and to receive healthcare, including being tested for COVID-19 or vaccinated against it.
Funerals and weddings in the lockdown zone will be limited to 10 people and hospitality will go to takeaway only. Other non-essential businesses will have to close.
Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young said she suspected the medical student who had tested positive could be the index case of the outbreak, and brought the virus into the Indooroopilly student’s home.
Exposure sites can be viewed at qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/contact-tracing
AAP
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