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Queensland’s chief medical officer has posted a list of “Covid-19 hot spots” in NSW and ordered anyone returning to the state from those locations to quarantine for 14 days.

It has been one week since Queensland closed its border to New South Wales for the first time since the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919. Police have been enforcing the “hard closure” at three checkpoints between the towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads on either side of the border.

The gates have also been shut on the state’s two other shared borders between the Northern Territory and South Australia.

Queensland residents are exempt from the ban, but from Saturday those returning home from a list of designated inter-state “Covid-19 hot spots” will be forced to undergo two weeks quarantine.