It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07. The snap lockdown comes three weeks after similar measures were implemented in the eastern city of Brisbane, prompted by a hotel cleaner contracting the variant. The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year. Western Australia kept its borders closed for most of 2020, cutting itself off from the rest of the nation but allowing the state to enjoy many months of relative normality. South Australia entered a week-long lockdown to quell a spike in coronavirus cases at 6pm local time on Tuesday. has New Zealand on high alert, with the disease having reached Australia. South Australia has entered a snap lockdown of seven days, joining neighboring Victoria and New South Wales as the third state to implement stay-at-home orders, with half of the country’s population now under restrictions. The restrictions are the toughest seen in Perth since the early stages of the pandemic, while masks have been made mandatory for the first time. in response to a court case would be in place before the 2023 election. 'We are trying to crush the virus as quickly as we possibly can.' SA Premier Steven Marshall says those currently in. 'What we're trying to do is have a (short) period of disruption rather than a long period of disruption, and therefore some adverse health outcomes,' McGowan said. South Australia records one new coronavirus case overnight and is set to end its seven-day lockdown as planned at 12:01am on Wednesday. This is the fifth lockdown for Victoria since the pandemic began and will last until Tuesday. Genomic testing is underway to determine the precise source of the man's infection, and health officials said he may have visited more than a dozen locations while carrying the virus.Ĭafes, bars and restaurants have been ordered to close, while visits to health facilities are banned and weddings cancelled. The latest outbreak brings the total number of virus cases there to 18. The traveller is thought to have picked up a UK variant of the virus believed to be more infectious than Covid-19 strains previously detected in Australia. so that we can bring it under control and not have community spread of the virus as you have seen in other countries around the world,' state Premier Mark McGowan said.Īuthorities believe the man contracted the virus from a returning traveller quarantining in a hotel in Australia's fourth-biggest city. 'Our model is to deal with it very, very quickly and harshly.

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