Queensland State to Keep Borders Shut for Another Month

Vehicle checkpoint on the Pacific Highway on the Queensland-New South Wales border in Brisbane on April 15, 2020. Patrick Hamilton /AFP via Getty Images

The Queensland government will keep state borders closed for least a month, citing concerns about community transmission of COVID-19 in southern states.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the borders will stay shut on Sept. 1 as a Victorian man who had coronavirus was caught trying to enter the state and two more local cases were reported.