Hobart region to enter three-day lockdown after COVID hotel quarantine breach

Hobart and Southern Tasmania plunged into lockdown

Hobart and Tasmania’s south have entered a three-day lockdown from Friday night, after difficulty with tracing the movements of a man who escaped hotel quarantine.

Hobart and southern Tasmania enter snap three-day Covid lockdown

Restrictions in force from 6pm on Friday after NSW man allegedly entered state illegally and then escaped hotel quarantine

WA on alert as Tasmania sweats on three-day lockdown

Recent arrivals into WA from Tasmania are being urged to get tested for COVID-19 after Hobart and southern Tasmania were shunted into a snap three-day lockdown over an infected NSW traveller.

Southern Tasmania’s three-day lockdown rules explained

Southern Tasmania will be plunged into a three-day lockdown from 6pm on Friday night, the state's Premier has announced.

‘We have growing concerns’: Hobart hit with snap lockdown after quarantine breaches

The stay-at-home orders for Southern Tasmania were sparked by a COVID-positive NSW man who escaped hotel quarantine and ‘has not been cooperative’.

Hobart MIQ escapee sparks three-day snap lockdown in Tasmania

Traveller from NSW was found at a suburban address after he could not be found in his hotel room. He later tested positive for Covid-19.