Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has accused the Federal Government of withholding information about the whereabouts of people who may have been affected by coronavirus.

Ms Palaszczuk told ABC Radio Brisbane only the Federal Government had contact information for people who travelled to the province at the centre of the outbreak.

"We need people who have travelled in Hubei Province to remain in their homes and in their hotels for a period of time," she said.

"We do not have the information to talk to those people.

"Only the Federal Government has incoming boarding cards and knows who is coming into Australia.

"On those cards is the information about where they are staying and their mobile phone numbers."

Ms Palaszczuk said her request for this information was declined when she asked during a "hook-up" call yesterday.

The Federal Government denied Ms Palaszczuk's allegations that they were withholding passenger contact details.

"Any information that we have, we have shared and we will share, I would like to confirm that the Tigerair flight manifest, the emails, the contact numbers and other known details were provided to Queensland at 4:00pm yesterday," Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said.

"Everything that is available to us is available to them and I have confirmed that with Minister Dutton directly.

"[The manifest] may not have been passed by the Queensland system to the Premier but it was certainly made available to Queensland at 4:00pm yesterday."

Power to forcibly quarantine people granted

Meanwhile, emergency powers have been granted to Queensland authorities to forcibly quarantine people suspected of having coronavirus.

Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles authorised the Public Health Emergency Order, which enables authorities to order a person or group of people suspected to have the virus to remain in a particular location.

Regulations have also been introduced requiring doctors and hospitals to notify Queensland Health when a person might have coronavirus.

"What that means is if a person presents to a doctor or a medical practitioner they must notify Queensland Health that they have that person there," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"It also gives us powers, if they have to be quarantined, for that to happen as well."

She said these powers were used "very rarely" but reiterated the scale of the coronavirus outbreak.

It comes as Queensland's chief health officer Jeannette Young confirmed a 42-year-old woman who is a Chinese national from Wuhan has tested positive to the virus.

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Dr Young said the woman was a member of the tour group travelling with the 44-year-old man who was Queensland's first confirmed case on Wednesday.

The woman is in a stable condition and currently isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital.

"Contact tracing is underway, which will allow us to provide information to guests of the hotel this group was staying in, and to other passengers on Tigerair flight #TT566 from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on January 27, 2020," Dr Young said in the statement.

"Any passengers who were on this flight should call 13HEALTH for advice."

Dr Young said the seven other people from the same tour group remained in isolation in Gold Coast University Hospital.

Victoria confirmed its third case of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the national total to nine, with NSW the only other state to have positive tests.

Unions want flights stopped and tighter controls at ports

The mining union wants the Federal Government to improve biosecurity at coal ports, which would include screening ships before they dock at Queensland's five coal terminals.

District vice-president Shane Brunker said workers had not been given any additional training and screening should be as rigorous as it is in airports.

"Our main concern is that foreign ships and particularly Chinese-manned ships, can come right into port without being checked for this coronavirus," he said.

"When [seafarers] come into port while the coal's being loaded, they're allowed to go into town and go shopping and mix with the general community."

The Federal Agriculture Department said all international vessels entering Australia were required to report information about biosecurity, including the health of passengers and crew, before they arrive.

Transport Workers Union national secretary Michael Kaine said flights from China should be halted.

"We should take the lead here and stop flights into Australia from China, right now," he said.

"There are airlines, major airlines around the world that have taken this step."

The United Workers Union (UWU) has threatened to strike against airports refusing to offer their staff masks, after two passengers who arrived on a domestic flight to Queensland tested positive to the coronavirus.

The union said staff were told they could not wear protective gear as it "would make travellers uncomfortable".

UWU coordinator Damien Davie said there had been "a struggle for workers to get face masks, latex gloves and hand sanitiser".

Mr Davie called on contractors to provide PPE masks and threatened a strike if the demands were not met.

"If there's no PPE provided to workers to protect them from this deadly coronavirus, our workers will walk off the job — the rule is no PPE, no work," he said.