Queensland has recorded six new community cases of COVID-19 and new restrictions will be introduced for parts of the state's south-east and the Townsville region, but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says authorities are "not too concerned at this stage".
Ms Palaszczuk said four of those cases are linked to the aviation trainer cluster, which began with a man from Eatons Hill, north of Brisbane.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she believed the point of exposure of the four cases linked to the aviation cluster occurred on September 21.
"We have multiple exposure venues across Brisbane, Moreton Bay, the Gold Coast and Townsville, so it's very important," Dr Young said.
"If people have been in any of those LGA days since the 21st [of September] please go online and check for all those exposure venues.
"One of those pilots involved in the aviation cluster went up there [to Townsville] on the 21st and has been infectious up there since then."
A woman from Camp Hill who visited Kyogle in Northern New South Wales has also tested positive.
Dr Young said the woman had been infectious in the Queensland community between September 25 to 28.
She said the woman has the Delta variant but is not "clustering with any other Queensland case".
Dr Young said the sixth case confirmed today had flown on flight VA333 from Melbourne to Brisbane on September 28 and went into hotel quarantine.
There are 22 active cases in the state.
New restrictions for south-east Queensland, Townsville region
Stage two restrictions will be put in place for Brisbane, Gold Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay, Townsville and Palm island as of 4:00pm today.
The restrictions mean a maximum of 30 people will be allowed to gather in homes and in public.
Capacity at sporting events will be capped at 75 per cent.
Weddings and funerals will be capped at 100 with a maximum of 20 people allowed to dance.
Hospitality venues will have a reduced capacity at one person per four square metres.
NRL grand final not part of lockdown consideration: Premier
Asked if Sunday's NRL grand final in Brisbane had influenced the decision not to place south-east Queensland in lockdown, Ms Palaszczuk said it had "absolutely" no influence and she was acting on the advice of the Chief Health Officer.
"Let me make it very clear that the health of Queenslanders comes first and as soon as Dr Young says we need to go move into lockdown, we will," the Premier said.
"We've got four of those [cases] that are linked to that cluster, plus [Queensland] Health have got all their contact tracers working and putting people into isolation so it's going to be very critical over the next 24 to 48 hours whether or not we see any seeding into the community."
Eight members of the Argentinian rugby union squad have been denied re-entry into Queensland after taking a day trip to northern New South Wales from their Gold Coast base, but this Sunday's test against the Wallabies is expected to go ahead even if they cannot play.
Queensland Police Service Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said players who were turned away the border did not have an exemption to enter the state.
"Anyone that comes to our border needs to understand that they, irrespective of who they are, the onus is on the individual when they want to come into this state that they have the appropriate border pass," he said.
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