Sydney woman tries to fool police twice before Qld hard border return

“Those 115 people we believe have come from COVID-19 hotspots in NSW, so they were turned around,” he said.

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“What that does is it demonstrates there are still significant numbers of people who want to come into Queensland and they simply can’t because of where they’re coming from.

“I think we all know it would only take one or two of those people to have come in and be COVID-19 positive and we could potentially have that disease spreading in our community.”

Chief Superintendent Wheeler said a woman from greater Sydney tried to cheat the border system about 5am on Tuesday – an hour before the hard border closure took effect.

“We had a person who approached our checkpoint on the Gold Coast highway, this was a female who had come up…