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Snap lockdown for Brisbane

byMark Bowling
29 March 2021 - Updated on 6 April 2021
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Archbishop Mark Coleridge presiding Mass inside a closed St Stephen's Cathedral

New normal: Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge celebrates Mass inside a closed St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane. Daily masses are being live-streamed from the cathedral. The Federal Government has suspended all non-essential gatherings to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and to ensure social distancing. The rules came in to force on 23 March.

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Archbishop Mark Coleridge presiding Mass inside a closed St Stephen's Cathedral
New normal: Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge celebrates Mass inside a closed St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane during last year’s lockdown.

GREATER Brisbane is entering another snap, three-day lockdown – throwing uncertainty about how Holy Week and Easter will be celebrated.

Whether churches are open or must close, web casts from across the Brisbane Archdiocese and beyond will be available here.

At this stage the lockdown, declared by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, will run until 5pm Thursday, follows the reporting of 10 new cases of coronavirus, four of those locally acquired and six from overseas.

Two of the new community transmission cases were linked to the 26-year-old landscaper from Stafford who tested positive to the highly infectious UK strain last Thursday, March 25. 

The other two have an unknown origin, although one is believed to be a nurse at the PA Hospital, and the other case is her sister.

One of the new cases has been infectious in the community while in Gladstone. They were there from March 25 ot March 28. 

Two of the new cases were in Byron Bay while infectious.

Mask wearing will be mandatory across Great Brisbane that includes the Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Moreton and Brisbane council areas. 

Schools will close from tomorrow and people in Greater Brisbane will only be able to leave their homes for essential reasons like grocery shopping, exercise, work and medical care.

The Premier has declared greater Brisbane a hotspot and has urged other state and territory leaders to do the same.A full list of web casts planned across the archdiocese in the coming days of Holy Week and Easter can be found here.

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Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

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