Queensland will plunge into its strictest lockdown ever after the state recorded six new Covid cases all confirmed to be the Delta strain.
From 4pm on Saturday 11 LGAs in the state will be confined to their homes for three days.
The LGas affected include the City of Brisbane, the Moreton Bay Regional Council, the City of Gold Coast, the City of Ipswich, the Lockyer Valley Regional Council, the Logan City, the Noosa Shire Council, Redland City, the Scenic Rim Regional Council, the Somerset Regional Council and the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
Residents living in those areas can only leave home for four reasons including for essential goods, to provide or receive care, for essential school and work, and exercise.
Residents can only exercise with one other person and must stay within 10km of their home.
A 17-year-old senior school student from Indooroopilly State High School in Brisbane's inner west felt unwell yesterday and returned a positive test early on Friday morning
Funerals and weddings will be reduced to ten people and hospitality venues will be limited to takeaway only.
Non-essential businesses such as cinemas, hairdressers, gyms and places of worship will all close.
The restrictions apply to anybody who had been in any of the 11 LGAs from 1am on Saturday regardless or not if they've since left the area.
It comes a day after Indooroopilly State High School in Brisbane's inner west was forced to close for a specialist deep clean while Queensland Health performed contact tracing on a Covid positive schoolgirl and her family.
Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath confirmed the case at the school of 2,500 students at Friday morning's Covid update.
'She became unwell yesterday and went and got tested and overnight her result has come back positive,' she said.
'We are testing her family members. It's a family of five. They live a at Taringa. She's been in the community for three days and at school for two days.'
The unlinked case at Indooroopilly State High School saw the school closed for 48 hours to undertake deep cleaning (above) as contact tracers worked to find the source of the infection
Indooroopilly State High School is a major Brisbane high school, educating around 2,500 students
