The Cairns lockdown will be lifted today after Queensland recorded just four new cases of COVID-19 linked to the Indooroopilly cluster and all in home quarantine.

It brings the outbreak to 120 cases after the first infection, a student at Indooroopilly State High School, was announced on Friday July 30.

"Who would have thought a week ago we would be in this position today? So, well done, Queensland … absolutely tremendous news," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

"They're all in home quarantine and they have not been out in the community — that is exactly what we want to be seeing."

It comes as more than 1,000 people are set to receive their COVID vaccinations today at Brisbane's new mass vaccination hub.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said so far just 20 per cent of the state was fully vaccinated.

"As soon as we've got 70 per cent of our adults, 16 years plus, vaccinated, we'll be able to do things so much more differently," she said.

Dr Young said she also wanted children between the ages of 12 and 15 with significant underlying diseases to get the jab.

"The Children's Hospital is managing that process," Dr Young said.

"It's really important that those children come forward and get vaccinated with Pfizer as soon as they're able to register and get an appointment."

Cairns situation 'reassuring'

Ms Palaszczuk said the zero transmission in Cairns meant it could come out of lockdown at 4:00pm, but restrictions would continue.

That includes wearing of masks and limits on the number of people allowed in businesses.

Cairns and the nearby Indigenous community of Yarrabah were thrown into a snap, three-day lockdown on Sunday afternoon after a taxi driver was infectious with the virus in the community for 10 days.

"I want to thank the Cairns community in advance because this is what we're asking you to do — exactly what the 11 LGAs are doing down here in the south-east," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"And that will apply, of course, until Sunday, August 22."

Dr Young said it was "reassuring" that Cairns only had two confirmed cases of COVID-19, including the taxi driver and a reef pilot who passed it on to the driver. 

"We have definitively confirmed [the reef pilot] got infected on that ship that he piloted through the reef," she said.

"He came into the Cairns community on the 23rd of July, which is why we've put some additional exposure sites up in Cairns. So, please, everyone in Cairns, could you go and check the website to make sure you haven't been in any of those exposure sites?"

There are now 156 active cases across the state.

Exactly 23,099 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours including 4,476 tests in Cairns.

Meanwhile NSW police have charged a Sydney man who travelled to Byron Bay, and subsequently sparked a COVID-19 lockdown in the area.

Police said the 52-year-old Rose Bay man allegedly breached public health orders by leaving a lockdown and travelling to Byron Bay and surrounding areas — within the Queensland-NSW border zone — without a reasonable excuse.

The man, who remains at Lismore Base Hospital with strict bail conditions after testing positive for COVID-19, is due to appear at Lismore Local Court on September 13.

40 per cent of state eligible for jab

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said the state had hit a milestone with 40 per cent of Queenslanders eligible for the vaccine receiving their first dose.

"If you are under 60, jump online and register on our Queensland vaccination website, because you have to be in it to get it," Ms D'Ath said.

Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said Queensland police had increased their operations along the border, as several regions in New South Wales navigate lockdowns.

"5,969 vehicles in total were intercepted yesterday," Deputy Commissioner Gollschewski said.

"108 turned around, only two into quarantine, and two issued with on-the-spot fines … so, again, very high levels of compliance from our community."

Of the active infections in the state, 59 people are in hospital, 92 are being managed remotely by a hospital at their homes, and one person is in ICU.

That person is connected to the Portuguese centre cluster.

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