A day after easing COVID-19 restrictions, Queensland has again recorded no new locally acquired cases in the state.
There were three overseas-acquired cases in hotel quarantine, Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announced.
Queensland has 34 active cases, with 11,284 tests conducted yesterday.
Queensland Health conducted 20,811 vaccinations in hubs yesterday, putting the state at 69.27 per cent first doses and 51.06 per cent second doses.
"It's great that … these numbers are starting to really creep up now and we want to encourage every single person, no matter where you live in Queensland, to come out and get vaccinated," Ms D'Ath said.
The Health Minister said reports of three men crossing the border from New South Wales to attend the NRL grand final last weekend were "extremely disappointing".
"I'm still getting the details on this but it is extremely disappointing because it doesn't matter who you are, if you are sneaking across our borders you are putting our community at risk and it doesn't matter the reason why you're coming over," she said.
"If you haven't got a lawful border pass and travel declaration to come, you should not be crossing the border."
She said the men had all tested negative to COVID-19.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the two of the overseas cases were detected in hotel quarantine in Brisbane and had recently returned from Papua New Guinea.
The third case was a mariner on a ship which left Indonesia a week ago, off the north coast of Cape York.
Dr Young said she hoped many people were using this "Super Pfizer weekend 2.0" to get their second vaccination dose.
"If you had your first dose three weekends ago, come and have your second dose this weekend," she said.
"Anyone who hasn't had a first dose, now is genuinely the time to come and get vaccinated if you're 12 years of age or older, because we've done really well due to a tremendous amount of excellent work in not having spread from our last incursion. But we just don't know when the next one's going to happen."
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)Dr Young said she was impressed with the way Queenslanders had come forward to get tested whenever there was the threat of an outbreak.
She said it was fortunate that the state had avoided large case numbers, despite encroachments of the Delta variant across the border.
"I'm perplexed, but I'm really, really reassured that every single time Queenslanders just do what is asked, so they come out in droves and get tested," Dr Young said.
"Even yesterday we had a large number of people coming forward to get tested, and I've always said it's about finding the first case in a cluster, and the only way we can do that is for people to come forward and get tested — people who wouldn't dream that they've got COVID, who just think, 'Oh, I've got a cold I better go and get tested,' but haven't been near anyone or think that there's any reason they've got it.
"It's that reason I think it's made the biggest difference that people are just prepared to come out and get tested.
"So I think that's probably one of the biggest differences in Queensland."
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