The Premier is refusing to confirm if the lockdown will be lifted – even if there are no new covid cases today, according to nine media.
An anxious wait for more than 2 million residents and business operators with the lockdown due to end at 6 o’clock tonight..
Annastacia Palaszczuk says a decision will be based on the latest Covid-19 numbers, due to be released later this-morning.
Most people have been doing the right thing, resulting in normally populated areas of the city resembling ghost-towns.
There’ve been no new cases recorded over the weekend.
An announcement is expected around 9am today as to whether the lockdown will continue or if we’ll be set free..
My News Feed will publish details about the decision after 9am, once all the information has been gathered.
On Friday Annastacia Palaszczuk said we needed to go hard and early, and we’ve done just that with most of us obeying the rules.
Only 21 fines have been handed out for those who have disobeyed the lockdown rules.
It’s all in response to the cleaner who caught the UK strain at the Grand Chancellor – one of Brisbane’s quarantine hotels.
It’s the first time the strain, which is 70 % more contagious, has been out in the community in Australia.
