The Australian state of Queensland has recorded two new local cases of COVID-19 and moved to mandate face masks for two weeks amid concerns about the Delta strain getting out of control. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says one new case is believed to the Alpha strain and linked to the cluster involving the Portuguese Family Centre in Brisbane. The other is a case of the Delta strain, a close contact of a miner who was out in the Sunshine Coast town of Bli Bli after arriving from a mine in the Northern Territory. Palaszczuk says the state is “on the verge of a lockdown” and has moved to mandate masks indoors and outdoors across 11 local government areas in the southeast. Residents of Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, the Lockyer Valley and the Scenic Rim will have to wear masks unless they’re exercising and …