As COVID-19 once again makes its way across Australia, now reaching almost every state and territory in the country, a raft of new restrictions have been imposed by leaders in an urgent bid to limit its impact.
Greater Sydney on Sunday woke to its first day of a citywide lockdown as NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a further 30 local cases of the virus.
The Northern Territory has recorded four local cases linked back to a miner who flew in from Queensland, prompting Chief Minister Michael Gunner to announce the region s first lockdown since the outbreak began.
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Queensland reported three new local cases, two of which are unlinked to NSW and believed to be the Alpha strain and the third a miner who had been working in the Northern Territory. Western Australia has also recorded one locally acquired case, a traveller returning from Sydney.
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Queensland has slammed its borders shut to people travelling from Sydney s hotspots after the coronavirus outbreak in Bondi Junction skyrocketed to 21 cases on Tuesday.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed in a press conference on Wednesday morning that anyone who had been in the seven Sydney councils designated as high-risk will be forced to enter hotel quarantine from 1am Thursday.
Those areas include the City of Sydney, Waverley, Woollahra, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West and Randwick - about 782,000 residents. We cannot afford to have this Delta variant out in the community, Palaszczuk said as the state recorded another case transmitted in hotel quarantine.