Di bawah penguncian, penduduk Canberra dan pinggiran sekitarnya hanya akan diizinkan meninggalkan rumah untuk alasan penting termasuk pekerjaan penting, perawatan kesehatan, janji vaksin, belanja bahan makanan, dan satu jam olahraga per hari.

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.

Itu membuat Canberra 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.”