Queensland has recorded 13 new COVID-19 deaths and 6,857 cases in the latest reporting period.
Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said there were 732 people in hospital, down from 749 yesterday. Fifty were being treated in intensive care, which he said was a slight increase.
Of the deaths, nine were in aged care facilities, taking the death toll in the state's aged care homes to 127.
The deaths ranged from people in their 60s to their 90s. Two were unvaccinated and only three had received a booster.
Since borders reopened on December 13, there have been 247 deaths from COVID-19 in Queensland.
Of the 732 being treated in hospital, 66 are in private hospitals, two of them in ICU.
Speaking from one of Queensland's medical stockpile warehouses in Brisbane's south, Dr Gerrard urged Queensland's elderly population to get their third vaccine dose.
"What I can say is that about 70 per cent of Queenslanders above the age of 70 have in fact received the booster, so we are seeing a disproportionate number of deaths in older people who have not received the booster," he said.
"This is quite a considerable concern to us.
"Anyone who is eligible should be going and receiving their third dose of vaccine, that's anyone who received their second dose more than three months ago should go ahead and get that third dose of the vaccine.
'Disproportionate' number of people in aged care haven't had boosters
Dr Gerrard said there had not been any discussions around changing the definition of fully vaccinated from two vaccine doses to three.
As aged care deaths continue to mount, the Chief Health Officer questioned why more aged care residents were not receiving boosters.
"It's not clear to us what's going on in residential aged care and why a disproportionate number of people in residential aged care have not received the booster," he said.
"Let's get it clear, these are people who've already received two doses. They've already indicated that they want to be vaccinated. So the hold-up in getting the third dose is hard to understand, and that's why I'm so concerned about it."
Mr Miles labelled the situation in aged care homes a "national disgrace".
"We have elderly residents locked away isolated in their rooms, not being bathed, not getting food, not getting the medical care that they need," he said.
"The national government should be doing absolutely everything they can to change that, including getting them boosted.
"If they were boosted, we wouldn't be experiencing nearly the level of deaths that we are.
"There's just no explanation why so many people in aged care are double vaccinated but not boosted when the Prime Minister said that they would be."
His comments came as an aged care royal commissioner accused the federal government of failing to prepare for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions of RATs on their way as schools reopen
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said millions of rapid antigen tests were on their way to Queensland.
"Importantly for school students going back to school next week, we have on order 32.5 million rapid antigen tests and 4.6 million have already been received," Mr Miles said.
"There are some delays at Sydney airport but we anticipate receiving roughly 1.2 million over the next couple of days, that is 100 pallet loads of rapid antigen tests.
"There's 250,000 tests ready here in the stockpile being distributed into schools over the weekend to be available for a return to school on Monday."
Queensland has inched closer to the 90 per cent double vaccination rate, and is currently sitting at 89.78 per cent.
But Dr Gerrard said he was concerned that some people were delaying getting their second vaccine dose.
"We think it's because young people got their first dose and then probably got infected after their first dose started and have just delayed a bit until the second," Dr Gerrard said.
"We'll reach 90 per cent, but that target is somewhat arbitrary. It is a very high vaccination rate by any measure.
"In terms of any relaxation and restrictions, we're not looking at any relaxation of restrictions in pubs and clubs for the time being until we know exactly where this pandemic is going round."
