QLD-SA border restrictions to ease on December 12

Queensland will ease its border restrictions with South Australia in time for Christmas, authorities have revealed.

Subject to no cases of community transmission over the next five days, people will be able to travel into Queensland from Adelaide from 1am on December 12.

South Australia has now recorded nine consecutive days without new COVID-19 cases in the wake of the northern suburbs cluster which sparked the border closure.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant conceded that…