The Queensland government will force returned travellers from New South Wales into hotel quarantine if they visited a venue exposed to coronavirus.
NSW on Thursday introduced a raft of restrictions for Greater Sydney after the state recorded two local Covid infections, mysteriously traced back to a returned traveller from the U.S. who contracted an Indian strain of the virus.
The two cases, a married couple from Sydney's eastern suburbs, attended a string of venues across the city while potentially infectious, causing concern Covid could be circulating in the community.
Queensland responded on Thursday afternoon, with Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announcing that anyone who arrives in the Sunshine State from 1am on Friday - and visited potential Covid exposure sites in Sydney - will be required to undergo hotel quarantine.