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Southeast Queensland has emerged from lockdown just as Cairns residents begin one, as the state grapples with a Covid-19 outbreak.
Eleven local government areas in southeast Australia came out of an eight-day lockdown on Sunday amid a Delta variant outbreak that has grown to 111 cases, AFP reports.
But we are not out of the woods.
I just want everyone to have a really good understanding that we are dealing with the Delta strain.
We’ve got to lockdown straightaway because if I were to wait another 24 hours, that’s another 24 hours that there might have been people infectious, (and) also out and about.
There are still a lot of people out there who do not carry and wear masks.
I am going to bang on about this endlessly: please make sure you are wearing a mask, and take it with you.
Seven more countries have joined the green list from today – and France has left the ‘amber plus’ list, under widespread changes to the UK’s traffic light system for travel.
Ministers announced on Wednesday that fully vaccinated travellers from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland returning from France no longer need to quarantine and ditched plans for a “watchlist” of amber countries such as Spain.
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