Health authorities in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are scrambling to track down hundreds of people who may have been exposed to the virus during their interstate trip.
Kim Fetherstone, who owns the Vandenberg Hotel in Forbes, lost out on at least $7,000 worth of business on State of Origin night after closing due to Covid exposure.
A Sunshine Coast cafe is feeling the impacts of its exposure to a Covid-19 case, with customer numbers plummeting after the visit of a quarantine-dodging couple.
Eight more venues across regional New South Wales have been put on alert after a coronavirus infected couple road tripped across the state before moving to Queensland.
Health authorities have confirmed the pair did not have an exemption to leave Victoria and travel to Queensland, and are investigating whether they lied on their border exemption passes.