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Asia Today: Australian city on lockdown over UK variant case

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BRISBANE – Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, will lock down for three days from Friday after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel was diagnosed with the highly contagious British variant of COVID-19.Masks will also become compulsory for the first time in Brisbane and some surrounding municipalities, the Queensland state government said.“We know that that strain is 70% more infectious and we know the extreme difficulty that the U.K.

has had in controlling their outbreak due to that strain,” Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.“So we need to act really, really fast.

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