Queensland has recorded one new local COVID-19 case, the mother of a young boy previously diagnosed with the virus.
It comes as the state declared Victoria a coronavirus hotspot.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said all three of the positive family members are in home quarantine.
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"This is exactly the type of news we wanted to hear today," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"This was the family that came out of hotel quarantine in Sydney and flew to Queensland and it has been confirmed that it is that Delta strain, that Sydney strain that is circulating in Sydney at the moment."
Ms Palaszczuk said Queensland will declare Victoria a hotspot from 1am tomorrow.
"That is 1am Saturday and that means that anyone returning after that time ... will have to do the 14 days mandatory quarantine," she said.
"I just think the clear message to Queenslanders is definitely do not go to NSW and do not go to Victoria during this period of time."
Restrictions will remain for another week in 11 Queensland local government areas.
Brisbane City Council, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Redlands, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Noosa, Somerset, Lockyer Valley and Scenic Rim were previously due to have restrictions on mask-wearing, gatherings and visitors to hospitals and aged care facilities lifted tomorrow.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young said the family at the centre of today's positive case, including the young boy who is believed to have caught the virus in Sydney, poses little threat to the state.
They have done everything you could possibly hope of anyone to do. They were in hotel quarantine in Sydney and then the mother and her son directly travelled from that hotel to Queensland," Dr Young said.
"We do have the whole genome sequence result from the son and it is confirmed - very tightly confirmed, with that outbreak that is going on in the community down in Sydney.
"The people in Sydney, the health staff there will be working through how he acquired the infection while he was in hotel quarantine down there.
"He has come up here and he had very little exposure out in the community so we are just tracking through any contacts he had while he was in the community.
"Then his father had minimal exposure in the community and his mother virtually none because she went into hospital with her son when he was admitted."
This morning an infectious diseases expert says Queensland is on "a knife-edge".
Professor Paul Griffin from the University of Queensland warned a possible lockdown depends on how many people test positive over the next few days.
"If we don't see any cases in its next few days we might escape one," he said.
"We are on a knife-edge."
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