Coronavirus Australia: When can we travel to Queensland?

Annastacia Palaszczuk says she has no intention of reopening the state unless there are no cases of community transmission in NSW and Victoria.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will keep the state’s border shut until there are no cases of community transmission in NSW and Victoria.

Remaining firm on her tough stance to keep coronavirus out of Queensland, she says she has no plans for relaxing restrictions any time soon.

“We do not have any intentions of opening any borders whilst there is community transmission active in Victoria and in New South Wales,” she said.

“I think we’re going to continue to see restrictions in Victoria up until Christmas time, that’s very unfortunate for people living there but it’s a serious situation.

“You only have to look at what’s happening around the world and we definitely don’t want to see that happening here.”

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the state’s border will remain closed. Picture: Tertius Pickard

Last week she took to Twitter to say the Queensland borders should stay closed as long as necessary, after she closed the border with NSW on August 8.

Queensland recorded no new cases of the virus overnight and the state has had no community transmission for 28 days.

Thousands of people are still pouring into Queensland despite restrictions in place.

Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said across the state’s long weekend 132 flights arrived, 7230 passengers were processed, with 19 refused entry and 740 placed into quarantine.

“At our road borders, we saw 8861 vehicles intercepted, with 594 people turned around … we quarantined 27 people from the road border,” he said.

“We’re still seeing large numbers of people trying to get into the state that cannot lawfully do so.”

Police issued 14 on-the-spot fines over the long weekend, with nine for false border declaration forms and one for a border breach.

Only eight active coronavirus cases remain.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said border restrictions must remain in place so case numbers were kept under control.

“We have to be even more careful with anyone coming into Queensland from a hotspot, which today is all of Victoria and New South Wales — although people in those strict border-zone areas can travel into Queensland — and anyone from overseas,” she said.

“We don’t know where the next case might pop up. We hope there won’t be any we don’t know about, but it’s still really important that anyone who becomes unwell gets tested for COVID and isolates themselves immediately.

“That way, if we get onto the first case, we’ll stop a cluster happening and we’ll stop the broader consequences.”