COVID-19 lockdown update From 4pm today, Sunday 8 August, the SEQ lockdown wil…
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📢 COVID-19 lockdown update
From 4pm today, Sunday 8 August, the SEQ lockdown will end (with some restrictions in place for 14 days) and Cairns and Yarrabah will enter a three-day lockdown after a new case was detected in the community.
📍 SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND
Lockdown will end at 4pm today, with the following restrictions in place until 22 August to keep the community safe:
😷 Wear a face mask when outside your home
🏠 Gatherings restricted to 10 people in homes (including residents) and public spaces
🍽️ Businesses and venues can operate with density limits
🎒 Staff at schools and students from grade 7 and above must wear masks
💒 Weddings and funerals can have up to 20 people attend
⚽ No community sport
For more information, visit https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/public-health-directions/restrictions-impacted-areas
📍 CAIRNS & YARRABAH
The Cairns Regional Council and Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council areas will enter lockdown from 4pm today until 4pm Wednesday 11 August, after a Cairns resident tested positive to COVID-19. Stay home unless it’s absolutely essential to leave for one of these reasons:
✅ to buy essentials such as groceries or medications
✅ attend essential work if you can’t do so from home
✅ exercise within 10km from home
✅ healthcare (including to get a COVID-19 test or vaccination) or to provide help, care or support to vulnerable persons
Lockdown restrictions include:
😷 Wear a face mask when outside your home
🏠 Only 2 visitors are allowed to your home (excluding volunteers and workers)
🍽️ Restaurants and cafes can provide takeaway or delivery service only
📽️ All non-essential businesses to close; cinemas, entertainment and recreation venues, hairdressers, gyms etc.
⛪ Places of worship to close
🎒 School to remain open for children of essential workers. Adults at schools must wear masks and students from grade 7 and above
🍼 Childcare to remain open for essential workers
💒 Weddings and funerals can have up to 20 people attend
🏥 Restrictions on aged care, hospitals, disability care and correctional facilities apply with no personal visitors allowed (excluding end of life visits)
For full lockdown details, visit https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/public-health-directions/restrictions-impacted-areas
We ask that all Queenslanders continue to:
🧼 Practise good hygiene
📏 Socially distance
💻 Check our contract tracing page regularly (https://www.health.qld.gov.au/tracing)
🤒 Get tested if you’re sick and stay at home (https://www.qld.gov.au/covid19testing)
