Queensland's border will reopen to all other states and territories from 5pm on Monday.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the border changes on Monday morning after the state reached 70 per cent double vaccination over the weekend.
"Now we will be welcoming people from hotspots who are fully vaccinated to come into Queensland and home quarantine for 14 days if they produce that negative test. That will become live at 5pm this afternoon," Ms Palaszczuk said.
Interstate travellers wanting to enter Queensland will need to satisfy a number of conditions to visit the Sunshine State.
Firstly, travellers must be fully vaccinated and have received their second dose more than two weeks ago.
Travellers are not able to drive across the border and can only fly into Queensland via an airport.
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Once travellers are fully-vaccinated, have returned a negative test and booked their flights, they can upload supporting documents to the Queensland border pass website to receive their border pass - which will be live from 5pm on Monday.
Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'ath said border passes would be "issued immediately" provided travellers satisfied the conditions.
"Start booking your flights if you're fully vaccinated, go get your test, as soon as its negative and your flight's booked, jump online, your border pass will be instant as long as you can meet that criteria,' Ms D'ath said.
After arriving in Queensland, travellers must directly travel to their place of quarantine, which must be within a two-hour radius of their arrival airport.
Approved places of quarantine are hotels and homes with fresh air access to the front door, meaning that apartments or units with shared indoor corridors are not permitted.
Arrivals can only travel to their quarantine residence with a private vehicle, a lift from the family they are quarantining with or using contactless vehicle hire.
Travelling to quarantine via public transport, taxis and ride shares like Uber is not permitted.
Ms D'ath explained "we do not want to see people who are going into home quarantine getting into those broader, more general use vehicles that could see transmission spreading".
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski warned travellers to abide by the conditions of entry and quarantine rules or face the consequences.
"People can expect that when they arrive in the airports in Queensland, there will be police there and they can expect to get checked," Mr Gollschewski said.
"Similarly, when people go into home quarantine for the duration of their 14 days, they will be subject to online compliance checking. If the compliance checking that we do, the online stuff, shows that there's a problem, they can expect police to turn up at their door.
"There are still breaches for failure to do this. So anyone that does the wrong thing and comes into our airports, not only are they likely to get turned around if they don't have the right paperwork, they will have committed a breach under the CHO's directions. And as we've done all the way through, we will take action when we have to."