It comes as a federal review rated NSW as the best hotel quarantine system in Australia, followed by South Australia and then the Northern Territory.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet likened Queensland border policy to that of East Germany in the 1980s. "They're turning the Newell Highway into the Berlin Corridor," he said.
NSW recorded one case of COVID-19 local transmission in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, and five new cases within hotel quarantine. "I want to thank the police commissioner and all the police involved, as well as all the other agencies, and Minister Stuart Ayers for his work with the hospitality industry."
NSW's one local case was a household contact of a previously identified case who attended Liverpool Hospital, and that person was already in isolation. In the week to 8pm on Thursday, there were 22 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in NSW.
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