REDLANDS and Logan residents will be required to stay home for three days from 5pm this evening as Greater Brisbane goes into a coronavirus lockdown.
It comes as the state records four new locally acquired cases, two of which are linked to the 26-year-old Stafford landscaper who tested positive to the highly infectious UK strain last week.
Residents will only be allowed to leave their home for essential reasons like shopping, work, medical care and exercise.
Schools will also close from Tuesday ahead of the Easter school holidays.
"We need to do this now to avoid a longer lockdown," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.
"We need to do this ... it will also enable our health authorities to get on top of the contact tracing.
"This is a huge job that we need to do now because we have more of this community transmission.
"I know this will mean some disruptions to people's lives, but we have done this before and we've got through it over those three days in the past.
"If everyone does the right thing, I'm sure that we will be able to get through it again."
More to come.
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