Queensland could reopen its border to all of NSW on October 6 if health authorities can trace how every new COVID-19 case is acquired from now until then | LydiaLynch101
She said NSW would have to record 28 days straight without a coronavirus case where the source of infection was a mystery, and that trigger was unlikely to change at the September border review.
The decision on reopening the border to all of NSW might not be made until the end of October, even if the target 28 days were reached on October 6. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Queensland's changes would mean "less stress" for regional NSW communities. "We are always only a few days from another outbreak but so is Queensland," she said, stressing that people wanted to plan for the school holidays and Christmas and the border closure had made things "unnecessarily" difficult for regional residents.
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