The ACT will lift coronavirus quarantine requirements for people from Greater Brisbane, and more than 4,000 people currently in isolation will be allowed out.
On Friday people who had been in Brisbane since January 2 were ordered to self-isolate for 14 days and ACT residents in Brisbane were urged to stay there rather than travel back to Canberra.
The travel restrictions were sparked by concerns over a highly contagious mutation of COVID-19 that had been detected in Brisbane.
Today’s decision to remove isolation requirements follows Queensland recording no locally acquired cases of COVID-19 over the weekend and ending the city’s own three-day lockdown.
“I have made this decision after carefully considering the broader risk to the ACT community,” Chief Health Officer Kerryn Coleman said.
More to come.
