Health authorities have urged people to start wearing masks after a surge in cases and more than 50 new exposure sites declared on Thursday afternoon.
Only some passengers who shared a flight into Queensland with a positive case,suspected to be Omicron,will be forced into 14 days of mandatory quarantine.
The revelation comes after two mystery COVID cases were found on the Gold Coast last week.
The Premier says a man living at Pacific Pines on the Gold Coast had tested positive after being potentially infectious in the community for six days.
People will have to be double-vaccinated to attend the footy,while hospitals will be off-limits to unvaccinated visitors.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has also revealed more details on how the mystery Gold Coast case came to be in Queensland.
Queensland’s top cop said it appeared the man,so sick health authorities have had difficulties speaking with him,had not “done the right thing” in regard to his travel.
Queensland modelling assumes contact tracers have a capacity for 100 new cases daily – a 10th of the number expected to swamp them when borders reopen.
It is in stark contrast to the seven deaths Queensland has recorded since the pandemic began in early 2020.
But Yvette D’Ath brushed off pressure to release the modelling the state government used to make decisions of when the state would open up.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles says a Labor cash-for-access fundraiser is an important chance for ministers to speak with business leaders about the COVID recovery.