International passenger numbers flying to Australia will be reduced by 50% and people will have to wear masks on domestic flights, as the mutated strain of Covid 19 from the UK starts to spread.
A quarantine hotel worker in Brisbane tested positive to the highly contagious variant on Wednesday, sending the city in to a three-day hard lockdown this morning.
Shaun Bindley reports
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