Brisbane restaurant owners are supportive of a city-wide lockdown to contain a single case of the mutated UK-strain of COVID-19 but warn their businesses are taking a huge financial toll. On Friday, Queensland State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the three-day lockdown to begin on the same day. The lockdown is designed to give health officials time to track down all people who may have had contact with the highly infectious UK-variant of the virus, which was found in a cleaner working in hotel quarantine. It is believed to be 70 percent more contagious than regular COVID-19. As a result, 2.5 million residents across Greater Brisbane are required to stay at home and only come out for four reasons: work, providing health care or support to a vulnerable person, doing essential shopping locally, and exercising in local areas. One of the already hardest hit industries—restaurants and hospitality venues—are only allowed to …