Brisbane to go into 3-day lockdown

Authorities in Brisbane, Australia, are locking the city down for three days beginning Friday, after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel was diagnosed with a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain. While several cases of the variant have been found in travelers in hotel quarantine, the cleaner is the first person to be infected with it in Australia.

Authorities believe the woman was infectious after January 2. She tested positive after showing symptoms on Wednesday. The Queensland state government says masks will also be compulsory for the first time in Brisbane and the surrounding municipalities of Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay and Redlands.