Two south-east Queensland mayors have called for check-in requirements to be scrapped at certain venues.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has echoed calls from Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate for the practice to halt at some venues because exposure sites are not being published.
Cr Schrinner told ABC Radio Brisbane that people could see a reason to check-in when the Queensland government was tracing COVID-19 exposures.
"That's not happening anymore," he said.
"It's pretty clear that for the majority of cases, they're not doing any contact tracing.
Cr Schrinner said it was an imposition on businesses to have employees monitoring whether people were checking in and questioned why it was necessary at locations people do not have to be vaccinated to enter, like supermarkets.
"The government's not really using their check-in app, yet they're expecting other people to use it," he said.
Cr Schrinner emphasised that he was still checking in.
"It is the law and until the law changes, I'll continue to check in," he said.
"But I'm just simply questioning whether it's necessary anymore.
Rules will stay, Premier says
At a media conference today Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the requirement would stay in place and that she had made her position clear to Cr Schrinner.
"I need people to continue to check in," she said.
"That is to ensure that vaccinated people are going into certain venues so they can feel safe during this particular period of time.
"Secondly, if there is a big outbreak, we also want to make sure that we can actually let people know from those venues.
"That check-in app will be in use for the foreseeable future.
"We will review that of course, once we get through this wave — but please, I would urge people to still continue to check in."
Yesterday Health Minister Yvette D'ath said there were still important reasons to check in.
"If there is a major event at a particular venue, we can still use that contact tracing data to let people know," she said.
"Secondly, it's our way – our only way – of really checking for vaccination status at the moment."
