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Queensland's two new mystery Covid cases include an unvaccinated 17-year-old boy linked to a growing Indigenous family cluster.
Health officials have recorded two new locally-acquired cases on the Gold Coast, while a truck driver who lives in Gympie has tested positive interstate.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the two local cases emerged after 8,779 tests in the 24 hours to 6.30am on Tuesday.
The unvaccinated teenager - whose Tweed Heads family is believed to have been diagnosed with 'multiple' cases of the virus - tested positive after presenting at an emergency department on the Gold Coast with a headache.
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Two new locally-acquired Covid cases were recorded on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. Pictured are pedestrians wearing face masks in Brisbane
He is a household contact of a woman who recently travelled to Queensland from NSW, with police investigating how she entered the state.
The boy is from a large Indigenous family and was admitted to Gold Coast University Hospital after testing positive to the virus at Robina Hospital, The Courier-Mail reported.
NSW Health said one of its residents had visited family on the Gold Coast before returning a positive result.
The second case is a woman in her 30s who was in home quarantine after travelling from Melbourne.
Ms Palaszczuk said a Gympie truck driver also tested positive in NSW after being in Bundaberg and Caboolture while infectious.
'Today's cases show Queensland is not immune to the pandemic,' Ms Palaszczuk told parliament on Tuesday.
'We have contained dozens of
