Lockdown has been lifted in southeast Queensland after nine new COVID-19 cases were recorded, but Cairns is in lockdown after a new case emerged there.
Southeast Queensland residents are being urged to stay at home after 16 new locally acquired cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 were recorded in Brisbane.
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Share on Facebook So wherever you are in those 11 LGAs, if you can at all, just stay put so that that virus then doesn t move, because we know that there are people out there who could have been infected, who have no symptoms. So the best way to deal with someone who has no symptoms is that they just stay at home. That s why lockdowns work, because we know that the virus can burn out. So please just stay at home.
Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said 70 infringement notices were issued and 21 people were arrested overnight.
He said police will move to install RBT-style roadblocks to enforce the hard lockdown.
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