Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young said the state decided to ease rules for Victorian travellers after conducting a risk assessment of the state.
“Given the reduction in risk, Victorians can still come into Queensland as they have been able to all along, but they only need to get test if they have any symptoms... no matter how mild,” she said.
“They need to get tested and isolate until they get a result.”
This comes as Victoria recorded no new locally acquired cases and no new cases in hotel quarantine, with more than 18,000 test results received on Monday.
There’s still no news on when Victoria’s hard borders to Brisbane and Greater Sydney will be relaxed, as the state adopted a new traffic light permit travel system on Monday night.
At Tuesday's press conference, Victorian Police and Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said there would be a "day-by-day situation and assessment" of NSW, with the final call on zone changes up to Victorian chief health officer Brett Sutton.
More than 4000 people had applied for exemptions to enter Victoria from New South Wales or Greater Brisbane before the new permit system went live.
But Ms Neville believed this backlog would "go down significantly" now the permit system had been introduced.
"There are a lot of exemptions that were sought form other parts of NSW, not just the red zone area," she said.
"So again, I think there's an opportunity for the exemptions to move more quickly."
The new "traffic light" system aims to streamline warnings and restrictions for all interstate travellers, classifying areas as red, yellow or green, subject to the virus risk.
People must now apply for a permit to enter Victoria from anywhere in Australia, except border communities in New South Wales where locals will require proof of their home address.
It was also announced Monday that regional NSW would move from a “red zone” to “orange”, meaning Victorians stuck in those areas could return home.
However, Greater Sydney and Brisbane remain as red zones.
The new system went live at 9 pm Monday night, several hours past the 6 pm launch time scheduled.
More than 31,000 permits to enter Victoria have been processed since, with applications completed in an average of five minutes.
Ms Neville apologised for the almost three-hour delay to the system going live.
"(Monday) night was terrible and apologies to everyone who was frustrated, held up - there were no fines issued as a result of that last night, because we were aware that people were trying to do the right thing and were unable to do that," she said.
"As I understand there were technical issues to get this stood up properly, with Services Victoria working through some of the glitches to make sure it was working properly before it went online.
"But in the meantime a number of people were absolutely inconvenienced, frustrated, and probably quite anxious as a result of that.
"I thank them for their patience and apologise genuinely for what happened last night."
Meanwhile 1200 players, support staff and tennis officials are set to flow into Melbourne from 5 pm Thursday for the Australian Open.
But Ms Neville said each person arriving on the 15 charter flights would be treated as a potential positive COVID-19 case.
"We have put in place the strongest and strictest rules that apply for tennis across the world," she said.
“There are bubbles that are operating in Doha at the moment, but this is the strictest program in the world, in terms of hotel quarantine for our tennis players."
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