Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young says all frontline workers will be required to be vaccinated when dealing with positive COVID-19 cases, as of Thursday.
This comes as Brisbane's snap three-day lockdown ends at midday after the state recorded just one locally acquired case, linked to the existing clusters.
The new requirements come into effect as a doctor from the Princess Alexandra Hospital where one of the clusters began, had not received their vaccination jab whilst working with positive cases.
Dr Young says any frontline worker as part of the 1A vaccine rollout is required to be vaccinated to work with positive cases.
"There's a difference between frontline workers who are dealing with positive COVID cases and frontline workers looking after other cases," Dr Young said.
"The requirement that came in this morning is that anyone who is looking after a COVID case, whether in quarantine hotels, hospitals, or our ambulances must be vaccinated.
"Other frontline workers who are in 1B - and they'll get vaccinated as it rolls out over the next year.
"My advice from today is that by midday today, all of the 1A frontline workers who are looking after hotel quarantine or hospital cases will be vaccinated.
"The requirement now is that before you come in and actually be a frontline worker looking after a positive case you need to be vaccinated."
Dr Young also said restrictions will remain in Queensland for the next two weeks, as aged care homes will continue to not allow visitors, and masks being mandatory across the state.
Gathering restrictions will limit 30 people to homes, masks are required at indoor spaces and hospitality venues will require patrons to remain seated whilst attending.
Visitors will not be allowed to aged care homes to visit loved ones across the entire state, as Dr Young says it only takes one asymptomatic person to cause an outbreak.
"People in Brisbane after the lockdown can go anywhere in the state, so then that risk goes with them," Dr Young said.
"I think the risk is low, but it is there - which is why I think that two weeks of restrictions will keep the whole state safe.
"We know you can just have one case going to an aged care facility, one case, and if they're asymptomatic and you don't know that they're unwell and if you let that one case in, they can infect nearly all those residents and we can see very high death rates.
"I understand how awful this is that people cant go and visit...but the last thing I want to see is just at the last hurdle -which is where we are, we're rolling out the vaccine to every aged care facility, is an outbreak and have a whole lot of deaths."
