The woman, from Mareeba, flew from Melbourne to Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast on July 13 before Victoria was declared a hot spot before receiving a text message on July 15 to tell her the Young & Jackson pub in Melbourne, which she attended on July 10, was a tier one exposure site.
She received a negative COVID test but under Victorian rules, anyone who has been at a tier 1 exposure site must get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.
But the woman went to several places, including the Rice Boi restaurant at Mooloolaba from 6.45-8pm on July 15, before returning a positive result on Monday night while in north Queensland, with likely the Delta strain.
A Queensland Police spokesman said officers were aware of the case.
If there are any compliance issues regarding this individual, that is something police will look at, at the appropriate time, he said.
Our priority right now is to ensure anyone who may have been exposed comes forward and gets tested as a precaution.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said his team had not interviewed the woman.
Queensland Health has done the interview with her, all of her infectious period was in Queensland, so we havent done an interview to have additional details, he said.
But she was informed of being a primary close contact by our team, but shed already travelled to Queensland at that time.
Queensland Health referred questions about potential charges or fines to police.
Earlier this month, businessman Jeromy Young was one of four people on board a superyacht which travelled from locked-down Sydney and lied on a border pass to enter Queensland, being fined $5000 each by authorities in both Queensland and NSW.
Queensland recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID on Wednesday and one overseas acquired case detected in hotel quarantine.
The escalating COVID crisis in NSW has led to Queensland shutting its border to three more areas.
