Queensland has recorded another day of zero community COVID cases, and no cases in hotel quarantine.
The state's total number is 1,964, with 9,918 tests completed in 24 hours.
Just 39 cases remain active after 12 people were discharged.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said Queensland Health was continuing to ramp up vaccinations, with just over 13,000 administered.
More than 3 million vaccine doses have been put into the arms of Queenslanders since they became available.
There are now 970 people in home quarantine, a stark contrast to the 19,000 that were quarantined at the peak of the Indooroopilly outbreak.
Mr Miles said the new restrictions at the New South Wales border requiring essential workers to have received their first vaccination, were resulting in a dramatic reduction in vehicles entering Queensland.
"We intercepted 2,715 vehicles, 142 of those were turned away, 12 of those were essential workers who would've been admitted if they had have been vaccinated," he said.
Check in app required for taxis, rideshare
From Monday August 30, 20,000 taxis, limousines and rideshare vehicles will be required to have the QR code app, and riders will be required to scan the code.
"We saw in Cairns, just how risky an infected taxi driver could be," Mr Miles said.
"We were very fortunate in Cairns, not to see further transmission from that case.
AAP: Sean Davey
)"[QR codes] will allow us, that if in the future we have a COVID case in one of those vehicles we will be able to trace those people who may have had contact with it."
Transport Minister Mark Bailey urged taxi, rideshare and limousine businesses to go online and register.
"This is about speed and efficiency," he said.
"If we have another outbreak, we want to be able to contact trace as quickly and efficiently as possible."
Taxi Council of Queensland CEO Blair Davies said the industry had been calling for the change for several weeks.
"Our drivers will assist any passengers that don't have a smart phone," he said.
ABC News: Alex Papp
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