Parts of Queensland will go into a three-day lockdown from 6pm tonight (June 29) until 6pm Friday (July 2).

The lockdown will apply to 11 local government areas in the state’s south-east – Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan City, Moreton Bay, Redlands, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Somerset, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Gold Coast – as well as Townsville, including Magnetic Island and Palm Island.

“The risk is real,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced in a press conference today. “It’s time for us to act quickly and act fast.”

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The stay-at-home order comes after two new community-acquired cases of Covid-19. One is a fly-in, fly-out worker from the NT’s Tanami mine who returned home to Ipswich, and the other is a clerical worker from Prince Charles Hospital who travelled from her home in Sandgate to Townsville and Magnetic Island. Exposure sites include Woolworths and the Bay Health Club in Sandgate, two Virgin Australia flights between Brisbane and Townsville, and the Townsville Sunday markets. (More information will be online soon.)

From 6pm tonight, residents will be permitted to leave home for four reasons only: for essential work, for exercise, to give or receive health care, or to buy essential supplies.

Only two visitors will be allowed to homes, and restaurants and cafes will be limited to takeaway.

More to come.