Coronavirus Qld: Health Minister to update state's COVID case total

There has been one new coronavirus case in Queensland overnight, as the Health Minister makes calls for regional cities to come forward to become quarantine hubs.

Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles has confirmed there has been only one new coronavirus case in Queensland overnight.

Regional Queensland cities would be used to increase the state's quarantine capacity and boost their local economies, Mr Miles said as he revealed the state had one new COVID-19 case overnight - a person already in hotel quarantine.

Mr Miles asked for Cairns hotels to come forward if they wished to become quarantine hotels and suggested Gladstone could also be used as a team from Queensland Health seeks expressions of interest.

It comes as the country works on a plan to bring back more Australians who have been stranded overseas due to quarantine limits and their inability to pay for expensive plane flights home.

"We know Cairns has both an international airport as well as is suffering significantly from the closed international borders so if that's a way for us to inject economic activity, create jobs in Cairns then we'd certainly like to do that," Mr Miles said.

"But there are complications and clearly we need to work through those."

He said there were other regional cities that could be used too."Gladstone is one of them," he said.

"Gladstone has an airport, not an international airport, but an airport."So we'll be looking at all of those options and where we can use the hotel quarantine program to support jobs in regional locations, we certainly will."

The new case  means the state now has 17 active cases and has gone 11 days since having a known infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, out in the community.

There were another 2708 tests in the past testing period, with Mr Miles urging people to come forward if unwell.

The one extra case takes Queensland's total number of known infections during the pandemic to 1153.

There are currently more than 3900 people in hotel quarantine in Queensland. 

Two licensed premises were fined over the weekend, as well as six people who did not comply with their exemption requirements.

Meanwhile, a decision on whether to lift restrictions on southeast Queensland aged care homes could be made as early as this Thursday as community transmission continues to remain under control.

It comes as two hundred fans will be packed together at tonight’s Collingwood and Port Adelaide game at the Gabba for an AFL Grand Final road test, while Brisbane residents are still banned from having more than 10 people in their homes.

However, Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette  Young said she believed it was unlikely that there would be a case linked to the trial AFL crowd.

She said it was safe because the contact details of the participants were being kept.

"It's a really good thing just to test the processes," she said.

The plan for the October 24 AFL grand final is for the Gabba to be at 75 per cent capacity, which equates to 30,000 people.

Dr Young said dancing was a "high risk" activity because of the difficulties in maintaining social distancing.

Dr Young said the concern about NSW cases, which affected the border remaining closed, were those being reported outside of quarantine.