Supermarkets have been flooded with panic buyers ahead of greater Brisbane s looming lockdown tonight. Long queues of shoppers waiting to get into at-capacity supermarkets formed soon after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced Brisbane would enter a three-day lockdown from 6pm Friday night after a mutant UK strain of COVID-19 escaped hotel quarantine. At Coles Fairfield Gardens, the line for the checkout is a two hour wait. Two hour waits at the checkout at Coles Fairfield. Photo: Supplied It is a similar scene at Gasworks with massive line ups just to enter Woolworths. Chemists have limited sales of masks to five per customer.