Queensland 'not immune to the pandemic' as it records two new local COVID-19 cases

Queensland has recorded two new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, while a truck driver has tested positive interstate after being infectious in the sunshine state.

The second case is a woman in her 30s who tested positive in home quarantine after travelling from Melbourne. "We have contained dozens of outbreaks but, as NSW, Victoria, the ACT and New Zealand have discovered ... it only takes one case to cause a massive outbreak. Our only protection is to get vaccinated."

The state will scrap quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travellers who test negative when 80 per cent of eligible Queenslanders have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, or by 17 December at the latest. "I have high confidence that the state will meet the 80 per cent overall across the state," he told the Nine Network on Tuesday.

Still better than NSW.

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