Changes to take effect next Thursday, bringing state’s rules closer in line with NSW and Victoria
Queensland will ease Covid-19 quarantine rules for household contacts and scrap them completely for unvaccinated international arrivals next week.
Household contacts should still work from home where possible and avoid high-risk settings such as hospitals and aged care homes, the Queensland government said. The government will also ditch mandatory quarantine for unvaccinated travellers arriving from overseas, but they will still need to test negative.
“It is important that every state along the east coast of Australia have the same rules for unvaccinated international arrivals, making it very easy for international arrivals to fly into any one of the states, including Queensland, and to move around and have consistency in relation to those rules,” D’Ath said.“The lifting of these content requirements are for people who are asymptomatic and testing negative - if you have symptoms, you must stay home.
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