Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane will lift a lockdown after containing a virus cluster.
Brisbane has been under a snap lockdown since the end of July but restrictions will be lifted Sunday after apparently successful efforts to stem an outbreakBRISBANE - Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane will lift a lockdown Sunday after containing a virus cluster, while an outbreak that has kept Sydney paralysed for weeks continues to grow.
Deputy Queensland premier Steven Miles said the region had achieved"something quite incredible" by seemingly bringing the outbreak under control. They will join millions of people in Melbourne and Sydney under stay-at-home orders, with Australia's biggest city about to enter a seventh week of lockdown.
State premier Gladys Berejiklian urged Sydney residents to get jabbed, with supermarket and fast-food workers taking priority in a fresh vaccination drive Sunday.Limited supply and pockets of vaccine hesitancy have slowed efforts to inoculate Australians, with just over 20 percent of the population now fully vaccinated.
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