Queensland to screen all NSW arrivals amid ‘hard border’ COVID measures

Anyone who enters Queensland from New South Wales will be screened by police in tightened border restrictions to keep out people from the COVID-stricken Sydney Northern Beaches.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has reintroduced the “hard border” on Monday after some Sydneysiders were caught trying to get into the Queensland illegally.

“People will start to seeing barricades going up again this afternoon … and it will be back to the strong border measures that we have seen in Queensland…