În condiții de izolare, locuitorii din Canberra și suburbiile înconjurătoare vor avea voie să părăsească acasă doar din motive esențiale, inclusiv munca esențială, îngrijirea sănătății, programările pentru vaccinuri, cumpărăturile alimentare și o oră de exercițiu pe zi.

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.

Face 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.”