Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced two new community Covid cases in the state on Friday morning but there were no new cases linked to the Gold Coast Uber driver.
Both of the new cases were detected in home quarantine and are considered low risk.
Acting Chief Health Officer Peter Aitken said the two cases identified on the Gold Coast this week were 'genomically linked' but health authorities remain unsure of the link.
The earlier Gold Coast case was a Pacific Pines man.
Ms Palaszczuk repeated her statement from Thursday that the next 24 to 48 hours will determine if tighter COVID-19 restrictions are needed on the Gold Coast after an Uber driver tested positive having been infectious for three days.
'We don't want to entertain it at the moment,' Ms Palaszczuk said when asked whether the Gold Coast would enter a lockdown. 'It will depend on whether there is unlinked transmission.'
Across the state, the first-dose vaccination rate is 80.55 per cent, while 68.84 per cent are fully vaccinated.
'We should be getting that 70 per cent double dosed milestone either on Sunday or Monday,' Ms Palaszczuk said.
A man claiming to have been a weekend customer said the Gold Coast Uber driver was not wearing a mask during their trip (pictured, Burleigh Heads)
The fully-vaccinated man in his 50s was one of two new cases reported yesterday, with a teenager from the Scenic Rim town of Beaudesert - linked to an existing cluster - also testing positive.
Contact tracers are working to find any passengers potentially exposed over the three days he was infectious in the community.
'The [Gold Coast] is not out of the woods but we have to monitor this very carefully,' Ms Palaszczuk said.
'We know community transmission can happen, we have large numbers of people who are vaccinated on the Gold
