The Sunshine State recorded no new cases on Sunday but south of the border it was an entirely different story with NSW recording 830 new infections.

Steven Miles was asked about the nation’s 70 per cent vaccine target and whether that would be achieved before Christmas.

“It’s pretty incredible to see that while the country’s most populated state is in the grips of a Covid crisis, the Prime Minister is busy blaming premiers of other states for what might or might not happen in November,” Mr Miles said.

“He’s doing that because if those timeframes are in jeopardy it is because of the NSW outbreak … an outbreak that he’s refused to take any responsibility for.

“That’s despite his failure to get enough vaccines, to deliver regional quarantine hubs which could have avoided the NSW outbreak, and of course his insistence that the premier of NSW delay their lockdown which ultimately resulted in this.”

The outbreak in NSW has ballooned out of control.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard on Sunday said 550 people had been taken to hospital with Covid since the outbreak began on June 16.

But NSW has finally hit its stride in terms of getting jabs in arms.

Nearly 60 per cent of NSW residents have had their first dose, and 31 per cent have had two doses.

Last week Mr Morrison reiterated his promise to have Australian families reunite for Christmas but said lockdowns “have to work”.

“I hope we can achieve a lot more before then. But what that requires is all to do what we have been doing. Stay home if you are in a lockdown area,” he told A Current Affair on Thursday.

Speaking on ABC’s Insiders on Saturday morning he said the nation would shift away from lockdowns once 70 per cent and 80 per cent vaccination rates were reached.

“Then Australia is able to move out of what is really an unsustainable situation,” he said.

“You can’t live with lockdowns forever and at some point you need to make that gear change.

“Once you do that, then you can move into focusing on the public health issues of hospitalisation and serious illness.

“Case numbers are not the whole story... but right now, of course, we need to make the lockdowns effective, we need to suppress the virus as best we can, and we need for people to isolate, stay at home, get tested and of course, go and get vaccinated.”

Restrictions lifted two days early in some parts of southeast Queensland earlier in the week after a run of no cases.

Measures that were slated to ease at 4pm on Sunday, were lifted at 4pm Friday instead.

From that time, in the 11 local government areas of southeast Queensland, community sport were allowed to recommence, and up to 30 visitors were allowed at homes and in public spaces.

Weddings and funerals would be allowed 100 attendees, with 20 people allowed on the dancefloor.

Stadiums were back to 75 per cent capacity.