The world became a lot smaller for Canberrans in August as COVID finally returned to the capital and a lockdown was declared.
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The ACT's fortune in avoiding an outbreak of community-transmitted COVID-19 finally faded on August 12 when a positive case was identified and found to have attended a packed Civic nightclub earlier that week.
A snap seven-day lockdown became a 63-day slog as cases fluctuated and a return to COVID-zero became unattainable.
While life in lockdown had a certain pattern, waiting for daily case numbers and exposure sites, searching for vaccine appointments, life also went on.
Babies were born and some unsung heroes kept the city running.