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Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said that she is comfortable with the lockdown being lifted, as long as Queenslanders adhere to the regulations, maintain social distancing, check-in at venues, get tested as soon as they have symptoms and get vaccinated if eligible.
Meanwhile, over the state s southern border, millions of people in Greater Sydney are poised to enter their second week of a two-week lockdown.
NSW is the last state left under stay-at-home orders, after the Northern Territory and Western Australia this week lifted their snap lockdowns following small numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Andrews government extends state of emergency powers until end of July
Victoria Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton will retain his emergency powers until the end of the month after a decision to extend the controversial declaration amid zero new locally acquired infections.
Dominica FunnellDigital Reporter
July 3, 2021 - 10:52AM
Victoria has extended its state of emergency until the end of July as the state marks a third consecutive day of zero locally acquired COVID-19 cases.
The controversial emergency declaration was first made in March 2020 amid a concerning rise in the number of coronavirus infections.
Under the state of emergency, Victoria Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has been given powers to enforce public health orders such as face masks and hotel quarantine measures.
Of the three new cases, the two causing most concern are a mother and daughter from Carindale, in Brisbane’s south.
The Queensland chief health officer, Jeanette Young, said positive tests had only emerged at 1.35am on Friday morning, and that more details about the cases would be forthcoming as contract tracers better established their movements.
There are two main concerns that prompted Queensland to extend the lockdown in parts of greater Brisbane. The first is that there is not yet an obvious source of the mother and daughter’s infections.
The second is that they had moved extensively across Brisbane, including visiting a market at West End, a Greek Orthodox community centre and several retailers in the CBD.