'Very encouraging': Queensland records just two more locally-acquired COVID-19 cases as lockdown decision looms

Greater Brisbane's lockdown could still end on Thursday after the number of COVID-19 cases in two clusters rose by just two to 17.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the next few days are "critical" for the state's contact tracers to get on top of the outbreak. Source: AAP

Queensland has recorded two new locally-transmitted cases of COVID-19, taking the total number of cases across two Brisbane clusters to 17.

Both of the new cases were linked to a nurse at Princess Alexandra Hospital's coronavirus ward who had received her first vaccine dose, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Wednesday. 

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