From January 1, ACT residents travelling into Queensland will only require a rapid antigen test to satisfy border requirements.
This comes after interstate travellers inundated COVID testing clinics across the ACT over the past two weeks.
Previously, people journeying into Queensland from a hotspot were required to get a negative PCR test within 72 hours of arrival.
With wait times of more than four hours and ACT government-run testing sites at capacity for most of Tuesday, the Garran site will only take high priority Canberrans on Wednesday.
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"From January 1 travellers into Queensland from interstate hotspots can use a negative rapid antigen test to satisfy border pass requirements," Premier Annastascia Palaszczuk tweeted on Wednesday morning.
"A PCR test will no longer be required. More details in our morning media conference."
On Tuesday, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet pleaded with the Queensland government to change its border entry requirements.
Mr Perrottet said "tourism testing" was clogging up the already overwhelmed testing system in NSW
More to come.
