Residents will be able to cross the border for essential work,school,shopping,medical reasons or caring for another person. Recreation and social visits will not be allowed.

Those travelling for work will need to show proof of at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. “There is no requirement for students to have had one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at this stage,” Queensland Health said in an update provided on Friday afternoon.

State Disaster Co-ordinator Steve Gollschewski warned people to expect delays and ensure they had the correct passes before travelling,with “up to 100 per cent” of vehicles to still be individually scrutinised at checkpoints depending on the situation.

“We will focus on making sure that we keep COVID out of Queensland,” Mr Gollschewski said.

“With that,they can be expected to be questioned around whether they have left the declared LGAs or not in the last 14 days,or in fact because they’ve had visitors into their premises[from outside the bubble] in the last 14 days.”

“As always,with any change in our border systems we do expect delays and there is always confusion.”

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro thanked his Queensland counterpart,Steven Miles,and the NSW Cross-Border Commissioner James McTavish for their work reaching the agreement so soon after his state’s decision to lift stay-at-home orders across the region.

“There’s no doubt that our border communities have copped the brunt of these border closures and the reintroduction of the border bubble will provide a long overdue sense of normality for locals,” Mr Barilaro said.

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