Coronavirus Qld: No new cases recorded after Delta scare, border to shut to NSW

Queensland will close its border to three New South Wales local government areas from 1am tomorrow morning, it comes after a woman tested positive to the Delta variant after returning from Melbourne.

Queensland will close its border to three New South Wales local government areas from 1am tomorrow, Thursday, July 22.

Orange, Blayney and Cabonne will be shut to the greater public, with a limited range of people allowed to enter for essential reasons.

Queensland has recorded no new locally acquired Covid-19 cases overnight, after a woman tested positive to the Delta variant after returning from Melbourne.

One new case was acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.

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It comes after parts of southeast and Far North Queensland were put on alert as a new locally acquired case of Covid-19 was recorded in a woman who travelled to the state from Melbourne.

The young woman who brought the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus into Queensland is expected to face a police probe for allegedly breaching public health directions.

Meanwhile, Queensland will slam its borders shut to South Australia, which went into a seven-day Covid-19 lockdown from 6pm on Tuesday, from 1am Thursday.