Australians are being encouraged to travel over the Easter weekend and be reassured by the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, .
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is ending Greater Brisbane's lockdown and is calling on all leaders to consider lifting hotspot travel restrictions.
Just one new community case was recorded overnight, linked to one of the existing two clusters, as thousands of Queenslanders came forward for testing.
"That is good news for Queensland and Easter is good to go," Ms Palaszczuk told reporters on Thursday.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack urged Australians to make the most of the break.
"Do your patriotic duty, have a holiday on us," he tweeted, spruiking subsidised flights to 15 regions.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced no new local cases other than one Byron Bay man who tested positive on Tuesday and was linked to a Brisbane cluster, but wasn't included in official figures until Thursday.
She remains cautious and wants people to stay in their local area over the Easter period if they're in Ballina, Byron, Lismore and Tweed. But it's not mandatory.
"It is a low risk, but they can unintentionally seed the virus in communities where the virus doesn't exist," she said.
The Greater Brisbane lockdown lifted at midday local time (1pm AEDT).
State-fed vaccine tension
But the stoush over the supply of vaccine doses continues.
"We give out our figures every day and it would be great to see the Commonwealth do exactly the same," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"Our total vaccinations now are at 79,534."
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt is aiming for a target of 750,000 doses administered nationally by the end of Thursday as batches of Australian-made vials become available.
So far 670,000 vaccinations have been delivered, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised the million dose mark will be hit next week after ditching initial hopes of four million by now.
Ms Berejiklian warned without co-operation the federal government will miss its own October deadline for all Australians who want the vaccine to have had one dose.
"We have six million citizens that need to get the rollout," she said.
"The Commonwealth has responsibility for the entire vaccine rollout, except for the 300,000 the New South Wales government has been asked to do."
Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the Morrison government was "all smirk and mirrors" about Australia being at the front of the queue for vaccines.
"That just wasn't true," he said.
"It has to accept responsibility for this and it has to get it right."
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles slammed federal minister David Littleproud for blaming states for a bungled rollout.
"We have right now on hand just three days' supply of the Pfizer vaccine. We have 12 days' supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine," he said.
"David Littleproud is 2021's April Fool."
Queensland's Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has opted for a two-week lockdown for Brisbane nursing homes.
She said only 56 of 186 aged care facilities that the Commonwealth planned to vaccinate in the outbreak area have had doses administered.
"The last thing I want to see is, just at the last hurdle - which is where we are, we're rolling out the vaccine to every aged care facility - an outbreak and have a whole load of deaths," Professor Young said.
Prisons and hospitals also remain out of bounds.
Revellers, musicians and local businesses have already taken a hit from the cancellation of Byron Bay's popular Bluesfest after community transmission linked to the Brisbane clusters.
But Sydney's Royal Easter Show is going ahead, after being cancelled last year.
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