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Queensland records three new cases of coronavirus

Queensland has recorded three new cases of coronavirus overnight.

One of the cases is a returned traveller from Sydney who is in hotel quarantine and the other two people are crew on a cargo ship off the coast.

The new cases bring the state's current active cases to eight with a total of 1,092 confirmed cases.

Queensland has now conducted 716,420 tests.

On the state's borders, Queensland police said hundreds of people were still being turned away ahead of the state's long weekend.

As of late Thursday, authorities had checked more than 4,000 vehicles at border checkpoints and refused entry to more than 250 people in the previous 24 hours.

Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said police were continuing to see fairly high numbers of people being turned away.

Meanwhile, an independent review into the state's hotel quarantining failure at Toowoomba is expected to be finalised within days.

Commissioner Katarina Carroll ordered the review after Toowoomba man Aaron Green managed to flee his hotel on his ninth day of quarantine.

The 25-year-old was yesterday convicted and fined $1,500 over the breach and was the first person to be sentenced for contravening a COVID-19 health direction.

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