Cairns will find out on Wednesday whether its snap three-day lockdown has kept COVID at bay, while the Gold Coast is on alert as the virus hits northern NSW.
Queensland records three cases as locked-down Cairns waits on Covid tests. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk expressed concern about the spread of the NSW outbreak to the state s north.
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A 24-year-old woman has fled a Gold Coast quarantine hotel on August 3, after being stopped by border patrol and declaring she had been in a NSW hotspot on July 31, before isolating.