For the first time in more than 40 days, Queensland has recorded no new overnight cases of coronavirus, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says, with the total standing at 1,019.

Queensland COVID-19 snapshot: Confirmed cases so far: 1,153

Confirmed cases so far: 1,153 Deaths: 6

Deaths: 6 Tests conducted: 1,065,078

Tests conducted: 1,065,078 Active cases: 17 Latest information from Queensland Health.

Ms Palaszczuk said on Monday she was "overjoyed".

"This is tremendous news but we want to see this over a period of weeks," she said.

"From our large population in Queensland — nearly 5 million people — to have zero cases, it's been I think around 81 days since we've had that record.

"If we can keep this up over the coming weeks, I'm sure that that's going to mean that we'll be able to make some changes and ease some of those restrictions on the population," she said.

The last time Queensland recorded zero new cases was on March 9, when the rate remained steady at a total of 15 cases statewide.

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It is 81 days since the first case was recorded in Queensland on January 30.

Health Minister Steven Miles said it was a "fantastic result".

"This is the reward for the effort that we all put in over the Easter long weekend," he said.

"If we can sustain this then the end is in sight."

Twenty people are in hospital, with seven patients on ventilators in intensive care.

Queensland's Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young, said the result was excellent news but Queenslanders would still need to follow restrictions for a while.

"That means all of the strategies that are in place are working and, more important, Queenslanders have heard the message and are following them," she said.

"There are some things we can do, of course, and those are the things we will be looking at carefully.

"Where we can remove some of those restrictions that we feel won't lead to a bounce back in those numbers of cases.

"Our Prime Minister has said that over the next four weeks if we can manage surveillance, we can manage contact tracing and we can manage to put in place rapid response teams … then we can look at what restrictions can be further eased."

Gold Coast beaches reopen

Mr Miles agreed Queenslanders needed to stay vigilant.

"We've seen in other countries reductions to near zero levels of cases and then a second wave of infections," he said.

"So we need to be very cautious, we need to keep up our current approach."

However, the Gold Coast Council today reopened the beaches at Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta.

The beaches were closed in the lead-up to Easter to stop crowds from breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Mayor Tom Tate said The Spit would remained off-limits for now and council beachfront carparks would also stay closed to discourage "out-of-towners".

Three men on the Gold Coast were charged with breaching Covid-19 restrictions after allegedly smoking drugs on the roof of a building in Jefferson Lane at Palm Beach on the weekend.

The men were fined $1,334 each.

"Where people blatantly, wilfully and recklessly commit those offences and breach the Chief Health Officer's directions, we will take enforcement action," Gold Coast District Chief Superintendent Mark Wheeler said.

Two of the men were also charged with drug possession and will appear in Coolangatta Court on July 27.

Councils want $600 million for coronavirus 'battleplan'

Meanwhile, the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) urged the State Government to consider its $600 million "battleplan" which would see thousands of jobs created across the state.

LGAQ chief executive Greg Hallam said the "one-off" package would focus on work that was not currently being carried out including bushfire mitigation in national parks and foreshore maintenance.

"These are jobs we can start pretty much straight away," he said.

"It's really important work — it's not painting rocks.

"We always had programs of this type, it's very important that people be given the chance to get employed locally."

Mr Hallam said the Premier had no other option but to consider the package.

"We believe the issue is that big, the governments will be forced to deal with it," he said.

"It is a large amount of money but this is the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression."

Ms Palaszczuk said the State Government was "always looking at opportunities to create jobs".

"Our Works For Queensland program is about accelerating jobs and of course my Government is working on an accelerated jobs plan as we speak," she said.