В условиях изоляции жителям Канберры и прилегающих к ней пригородов будет разрешено покидать дом только по важным причинам, включая важную работу, медицинское обслуживание, назначения вакцины, покупки продуктов и один час физических упражнений в день.

General retail will be closed and hospitality businesses will move to take away only.

Masks will be made mandatory in public spaces.

Any Territorians who visited an exposure site at the same time as the positive case have been ordered to isolate for 14 days.

“This will be the first time that the ACT has entered a lockdown of this nature since the early days of the pandemic,” said Barr.

Это делает Канберра another major Australian city currently subject to a lockdown with strict restrictions also in place in Sydney and Melbourne.

“We know from what we are seeing around Australia that the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus is highly infectious, and life threatening,” Barr said.

“For the sake of your health, your family’s health and for the health of the community – it’s critical that Canberrans take every precaution they can over the coming days.”