Queensland will open its border to New South Wales from 1:00am on November 3, but it will remain closed to Greater Sydney and Victoria, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says.
The decision has been made on the eve of the state election.
Ms Palaszczuk said she relied on the advice of the Chief Health Officer, who is concerned about community transmission of the virus in southern states.
"I have always said that I will follow the health advise and this is Dr Young's advice," she said.
"Keeping Queensland safe is also keeping our economy open and I will not risk the safety of Queenslanders."
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the recent cases in NSW led to her decision to close Queensland to Greater Sydney.
"I have reviewed the situation in NSW and prior to yesterday they had four LGAs in Sydney that had had cases of community transmission that NSW was unable to link to any known clusters, which means that they have transmission and they don't know where it is coming from," she said.
"Yesterday they had four new cases and one of those cases they could not link to any other known clusters.
"The other three cases were linked to that case. That then meant another area of Sydney was having cases.
"NSW put out an alert for six different sites across the city where they were concerned that transmission could have occurred.
"So based on that new information yesterday and the information up to that point I believe it is important that Queensland remain closed to those 32 LGA is in Sydney."
Ms Palaszczuk said it was through "the hard work of every single Queenslander" that the state had no community transmission.
Ms Palaszczuk said the border opening on November 3 would allow time for border passes to be renewed.
Mr Miles said the border would remain closed to people who "travel through Victoria and people who travel through the 32 local government areas of greater Sydney".
"This is a substantial change to our border arrangements and so it will take that time to ensure that we can be implemented smoothly," he said.
Queensland recorded one new case of coronavirus overnight.
The man, in his 50s, had recently travelled and is in hotel quarantine on the Gold Coast.
More to come.
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