More than two million people in Brisbane have been ordered into a three-day lockdown after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia's third-biggest city.
It is the second snap lockdown of the greater Brisbane area this year, and comes after seven people tested positive for Covid-19 - the first significant community outbreak in Australia in weeks. "This is the UK strain.
It is highly infectious. We need to do this now to avoid a longer lockdown," Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said. "We've seen what's happened in other countries.
I don't want to see that happen to Queensland, I don't want to see that happen to Australia." Australia has been relatively successful in curbing the spread of Covid-19, with just
Read more on rte.ie