Sydney: Australia had introduced a lockdown after a hotel quarantine worker testing positive for a new more  infectious strain of coronavirus being reported in Britain.  A three-day lockdown of Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane will be lifted after no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded over the weekend.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed on  Monday that additional restrictions would remain in place for the next 10 days to ensure the strain does not re-emerge in the community. Measures included mandating face masks for indoor public areas and reducing patron limits on bars, restaurants and other venues. Palaszczuk said,  "We want to make sure that that incubation period, that 14 days, has totally lapsed before we return back to normal."

As far as global coronavirus cases are concerned, the cases have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for a wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide.

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