Australian Capital Canberra Goes Into Snap Lockdown; One Case Detected
August 12th, 2021Via: BBC:
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.
It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07:00 GMT).
The lockdown was called for the whole of the Australian Capital Territory – home to around 400,000 people – because authorities do not know how the infected person caught the virus.
Residents will only be able to leave home for essential reasons.
Queues were reported at supermarkets as the lockdown approached.
