From 4pm Saturday 31 July 2021 to 4pm Tuesday 3 August 2021, people in South-East Queensland will be required to stay at home except for essential reasons.

South-East Queensland is defined as the Local Government Areas of:

• Brisbane City Council
• Logan City Council
• Moreton Bay Regional Council
• Ipswich City Council
• Redland City Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council
• Gold Coast City Council
• Noosa Shire Council
• Somerset Regional Council
• Lockyer Valley Regional Council
• Scenic Rim Regional Council.

Anyone who was in South-East Queensland at or after 1am Saturday 31 July 2021 is required to follow the same lockdown rules even if they are no longer in South-East Queensland.

During the lockdown period, you can only leave your residence (which includes temporary accommodation such as a holiday rental) for limited permitted purposes such as:

• obtaining essential goods or services within 10km, including healthcare
• exercise in your local area
• attending essential work, or school/childcare for the children of essential workers or vulnerable children
• assisting vulnerable persons
• obtaining a COVID-19 test or vaccination

Essential work is work that cannot be done from your home.

You should stay within 10km of your home unless for essential reasons.

No visitors are allowed to your residence (excluding volunteers and workers), unless providing support to a vulnerable person.

You can exercise away from your home, within 10km, with your household group and/or one other person not from your household.

Masks

You must wear a face mask at all times when you leave home, including outdoors and for exercise, unless you have a lawful reason not to.

You must wear a mask in indoor spaces, such as:

• shopping centres and supermarkets
• hospitals and aged care facilities, if permitted to visit
• indoor workplaces (where safe to wear a mask and you can’t physically distance)
• public transport, taxis and rideshare, and waiting places or queues for this transport, and
• airports and travelling on planes.

Masks do not need to be worn in some circumstances, including children under 12 years, where people have certain medical conditions, and in workplaces where it is not safe to do so. Masks may be removed when sitting down to eat and drink and for employment purposes.

Mask wearing will be required for students, teachers and staff at high schools. Staff at primary schools will also be required to wear masks.

Business

Non-essential businesses are not allowed to operate. Cinemas, entertainment and recreation venues, hairdressers, beauty and personal care services, gyms and places of worship will all close. Childcare centres will remain open for children of essential workers.

Restaurants and cafes can provide take away or home delivery services only.

Funerals, weddings, aged and other care

Funerals will be limited to 10 people, and weddings will be limited to 10 people, including the celebrant and the couple.

Restrictions on aged care, hospitals, disability care and correctional facilities apply with no personal visitors allowed. Anyone attending these facilities in South East Queensland, including staff, must wear a mask. People will still be able to visit their loved ones who are at end of life.

At this point the government has not updated the schedule of Restrictions on Businesses, Activities and Undertakings Direction (No.23) so at this stage we can only assume restricted businesses are in line with previous categories. If that is the case, businesses will be allowed to open if they choose, but must keep in mind the limited reasons people are allowed to leave a residence, as outlined above.