Townsville and parts of Queensland will enter a 3-day lockdown from 6 pm on Tuesday night after further cases of community transmission were identified overnight.
Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed that a number of areas across the South-East and Northern Queensland will be under lockdown orders, with Townsville an issue of concern after one positive case travelled to Townsville and Magnetic Island.
“From 6pm tonight until 6pm on Friday, South East Queensland, Townsville City, Palm Island, Magnetic Island will go into lockdown. What we want to do is give our contact tracers time to get on top of this, this is absolutely essential. We want to make sure we stop the virus in its tracks.”
For the South East that will include the 11 local government areas currently under the mask mandate, Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan City, Moreton Bay, Redlands, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Somerset, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, and Gold Coast.