Major supermarkets have introduced two-item limits for a number of grocery products in high demand as Brisbane shoppers stock up at the start of a three-day lockdown.
Here's a summary of what happened on Friday:
- Caps on international arrivals halved in NSW, WA and Queensland
- Western Australia implements hard border with Queensland
- National Cabinet makes masks compulsory on all flights, requires UK travellers to get test for new COVID-19 strain
- South Australia has declared Greater Brisbane a hotspot
- Tasmania declares Greater Brisbane 'high risk', requiring travellers to quarantine
- Queensland travellers in NSW told to isolate as the state records 11 new COVID-19 cases
- Three-day lockdown imposed on Greater Brisbane to stop spread of mutant COVID strain
- Zero locally acquired cases in Victoria, Queensland records nine new COVID-19 cases in quarantine
Look back at Friday's key events as they unfolded in the blog below:
