Lockdown has been lifted across all of Queensland but with five more cases of community transmission and a huge list of exposure sites around the south-east, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has kept some restrictions in place.
Brisbane and Moreton Bay were the last two regions to come out of lockdown as of 6:00pm. An additional 24 hours was added to the lockdown after Friday's unlinked cases were detected — a mother and daughter from Carindale.
Those cases have now been directly linked to the Portuguese Family Centre cluster.
Five more cases of community transmission were detected on Saturday and three in hotel quarantine.
The new cases included a 29-year-old Brisbane man who travelled to Eumundi on June 27, a woman in her 50s from Everton Park in Brisbane and a baggage handler in his 50s at the Brisbane Domestic Airport.
A Sunshine Coast man in his 50s was confirmed to have the virus late on Friday afternoon.
The detection of the case did not stop lockdown being lifted for Sunshine Coast residents last night but the Premier warned of multiple new potential exposure sites in the area.
She said the community was "not out of the woods yet" and restrictions would remain in place until July 16, including compulsory mask wearing.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young said "thousands" of people were in isolation after visiting exposure sites, "and it's going up every minute".
"I'd prefer to put more people into quarantine than ask the whole city of Brisbane to be in isolation," she said.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said lifting the lockdown was "a huge relief".
"There are three things that will keep us out of lockdown: masks, QR codes and testing," Mr Miles said.
"If we can keep those up for 13 days, we can avoid another lockdown.
"Hopefully this will be our last one."
Ms Palaszczuk urged vulnerable, unvaccinated people to limit their outings for the next 13 days.
"Close family is fine, but please limit and think about whether or not you need to go to a shopping centre, whether friends or family can drop some food over to you," she said.
