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Australia tightens Covid curbs as Brisbane extends lockdown

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Australia's Queensland state has extended a Covid-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to enforce stay-at-home rules as the country struggles to stop the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreading.

Queensland said it had detected 13 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours - the biggest one-day rise the state has recorded in a year.

The lockdown of Brisbane was due to end tomorrow but will now stay in place until late on Sunday. "It's starting to become clear that the initial lockdown will be insufficient for the outbreak," Queensland state Deputy Premier Steven Miles told reporters in Brisbane.

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