The Queensland government will restart hotel quarantine for Queenslanders stranded interstate from Saturday, but the program will remain closed for residents of NSW, Victoria and the ACT.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been under fire for her snap decision last Wednesday to pause the domestic hotel quarantine program for two weeks.
A number of Queenslanders were caught out by the move, which the government said would reduce pressure on the system, and unable to get home from other states where COVID-19 outbreaks are occuring.
Ms Palaszczuk says enough people have now completed hotel quarantine and vacated rooms to allow the government to restart the program from Saturday.
"As of Saturday, Queensland residents can begin returning from interstate hotspots into hotel quarantine in Queensland," she told parliament on Wednesday.
"The pause on intake has only just begun, numbers in our quarantine hotels have only slightly eased so we can offer places to 50 as a start but we will add more places as rooms become available."
Queensland will continue its pause on other arrivals from NSW, Victoria and the ACT until at least September 8.
The state's road borders with NSW are also closed to all but essential workers who have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The premier has also indicated that her state may not start easing restrictions once vaccination coverage hits 80 per cent.
Ms Palaszczuk says she wants to see more Doherty Institute modelling on immunising people under the age to 12 before committing to any kind of reopening plan.
"Unless there is an answer on how these young people are going to be vaccinated, you are putting this most vulnerable population at risk," she told parliament.
"So anyone who has grandchildren, or young children or nephews or nieces, knows how that plays on people's minds.
"And my understanding is that the doubting Institute has said that they will go and look at that."
The premier said the national plan mentioned a booster shot program as well, but the federal government was nowhere near the completing the first round of vaccinations.
"There are many steps ahead of us towards this plan, but the number one thing we can do is get as many of our population vaccinated as possible now,
"Give us the supply, and the supply comes from the federal government, and we will vaccinate people."
Meanwhile, Ms Palaszczuk refused to reveal the cost of an 1000-bed quarantine facility being built by the state government at Wellcamp near Toowoomba.
The facility, along with another facility being funded by the federal government in Brisbane, will eventually replace the hotel quarantine system.
Queensland's road borders with NSW remain closed to all but essential workers who have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski says NSW has rejected a proposal to shift border checkpoints south to temporarily include the town of Tweed Heads within Queensland.
However, he says talks are ongoing to make border crossings smoother for those allowed to cross into Queensland and he's hopeful the current lockdown will ease in regional NSW, which could ease border restrictions.
"So we're trying to improve that now. We will try to, well we will, keep the dialogue going with NSW around how we can fix those things as we go forward," he told Nine Network on Wednesday.
