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A traveller has tested positive for COVID-19 after potentially being infectious at Brisbane Airport for four hours.

Queenland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said the man transited through Brisbane while travelling from Newcastle to the Northern Territory on Friday night

The man, who was fully vaccinated, was on a "red" flight from NSW, so anyone ending their journey Brisbane would have gone into hotel quarantine.

Ms D'Ath says he arrived at the airport on Jetstar flight JQ484 at 5.10pm, before boarding another flight to the NT about four hours later.

"We're just wanting to make sure that that person, in the four hours that they were at the domestic airport, did not move around very far, and whether they went to any food courts or any other areas," Ms D'Ath said.

"So please, if you were at the Brisbane domestic airport on the 17th of September, just keep an eye on our website today to see if there is any exposure sites listed."

Queensland also recorded another virus case in a traveller, who had arrived on the flight from NSW, in hotel quarantine.

A third case recorded in hotel quarantine on Monday was overseas-acquired case, while there are no new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19 in the state.

Meanwhile, Queensland Health administered 56,907 vaccine doses on its vaccination drive weekend, dubbed "The Super Pfizer weekend".

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she's confident, once the Commonwealth vaccination figures from GPs and pharmacies are added, that more than 60 per cent of eligible Queenslanders will have had one dose of a vaccine.

The premier urged even more people to get vaccinated due to the risk of a Delta variant outbreak in the state.

She said getting the jab would help maintain the current public health restrictions in Queensland, which were much more liberal compared to other states.

"What we're trying to do here in Queensland is protect our freedoms; in Victoria and NSW they're trying to get their freedoms back," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"So you would have heard Victoria talking about having 30 people for Christmas dinner, we have 100 people allowed to come to your homes at the moment in Queensland.

"We are about protecting our lifestyle protecting our freedoms, and that's why the vaccination is so important."

Ms Palaszczuk wouldn't say whether high vaccination coverage would lead to Queensland winding back its border restrictions on interstate hotspots.

Currently, anyone who has been to a hotspot in the previous fortnight must go into mandatory hotel quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the state.

"Well that depends nationally on when the whole of the country reaches a particular (vaccination coverage) threshold, and the Doherty Institute is working on those issues for national cabinet at the moment," the premier said.

"My understanding is that national cabinet will meet in a fortnight's time."

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NSW has reported 935 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, dipping back under 1000 daily infections, and four deaths.

Most of NSW is locked down and police are cracking down on compliance measures as authorities battle to contain the spread of the virulent Delta strain.

Of the four deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, two were men in their 60s and two people were in their 80s.

It takes the toll for the current NSW outbreak to 245, and the toll for the entirety of the pandemic to 301.

There are 1207 COVID-19 patients in hospital in NSW, with 236 in intensive care units and 123 on ventilators.

"Even if case numbers go down, we should expect unfortunately that the number of people in intensive care and the number of people who lose their lives to go up," Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters.

"As we've said consistently, because we have had a number of cases in the last few weeks, people ordinarily get very sick in the second week of the illness."

It comes as those in Sydney's hardest hit suburbs enjoy their first taste of freedom in months, with recreation rules relaxing as vaccination rates continue to climb.

Fully vaccinated adults in the 12 western Sydney local government areas will from Monday be able to exercise outdoors with no time limits, and gather in groups of five for outdoor recreation within five kilometres from home.

Children under 12 are not included in the gathering limit.

Conditions for authorised workers and travel permit requirements will remain in place in the LGAs of concern, however.

Public pools can reopen in NSW from September 27.

Monday is also the deadline for authorised workers to have been inoculated with at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose to be permitted to leave their LGA for work, unless they have a medical exemption.

NSW reported 13 deaths on Sunday - an outbreak record.

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The number of daily COVID-19 infections in NSW has dipped below a thousand for the first time in almost four weeks but the premier says the "insidious" virus could still bounce back.

However, the Cowra local government area in central west NSW will go back into lockdown on Monday at 5pm after a case was diagnosed in a school boy.

The source of the nine-year-old's infection remains unclear.

NSW reported 935 new local COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday and four deaths - two people in their 60s and two in their 80s.

It takes the toll for the current NSW outbreak to 245.

The state reported fewer than a thousand cases for the first time since August 27, but Premier Gladys Berejiklian advised NSW residents to remain on high alert.

"Even if case numbers go down, we should expect unfortunately that the number of people in intensive care and the number of people who lose their lives to go up," Ms Berejiklian told reporters on Monday.

"We have had a number of cases in the last few weeks ... people ordinarily get very sick in the second week of the illness.

"I don't want any of us to sit back and think the worst is behind us. Because, unfortunately, too many families are going to have loved ones end up in hospital, or worse."

The number of daily infections of the "insidious" virus could again spike if people ignore lockdown rules and socialise, she said.

NSW modelling suggests COVID-19 case numbers peaked in mid-September but hospitalisations will peak in October - around the time freedoms are restored under the government's roadmap.

There are 1207 COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals, with 236 in intensive care units and 123 on ventilators.

"Once we start reopening, cases will go through the roof but it won't matter as much because people are vaccinated," Ms Berejiklian said.

Lockdown rules in western Sydney's 12 local government areas "of concern" have now eased for outdoor recreation.

Fully vaccinated adults in the 12 council areas are now free to exercise outdoors with no time limits and gather in groups of five for outdoor recreation within five kilometres from home.

Children under 12 are not included in the group limit.

Conditions for authorised workers and travel permit requirements will remain in place in the LGAs of concern, however.

Public pools can reopen in NSW from September 27.

Ms Berejiklian expressed her hope that all parts of the state could move together and restore freedoms at 70 per cent double-dose vaccination coverage, but said no decisions had been made.

Some 82.23 per cent of NSW residents 16 and over have had at least one vaccine shot, while 52.65 per cent are fully jabbed.

Authorised workers must now be inoculated with at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose to be permitted to leave their LGA for work, unless they have a medical exemption.

NSW reported 13 deaths on Sunday - an outbreak record.

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