“This is an absolutely tremendous effort,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

“Our total still sits at 1019 and if we can keep this up over the coming weeks, I’m sure that is going to mean that we will be able to make some changes and ease some of those restrictions on the populations.”

This is the first time in 81 days the state has recorded no cases of the virus in 24 hours.

Health Minister Steven Miles said 20 patients remained in hospital, with seven in intensive care on ventilators.

He said the state needed to “keep up our current approach” for now to avoid a spike in cases.

It comes as schools reopen across Queensland for the first day of Term 2.

Authorities estimate around 100,000 students – or 10 to 15 per cent of students enrolled across the state –  will attend school for the first day of the term.

That figure would be spread across the whole state as schools open only for the children of essential workers and vulnerable children as part of the response to the coronavirus outbreak, Education Minister Grace Grace said.

“We’re expecting somewhere around 10 maybe 15 per cent,” Grace told media on Sunday.

“We really don’t know but whatever happens we’ll be able to accommodate.”

All other students will be required to learn remotely, based on medical advice.

But parents who have children at home with them are not required to take any classes, Grace said.

That’s a job for teachers and teacher aides employed across the state who will help children learn via digital devices and hard copies of the curriculum.

“This is remote learning,” Grace said.

“No parent is required to be a teacher.”

Meanwhile, Queensland’s online education portal has crashed this morning, leaving parents and students unable to access remote learning.

High demand had resulted in a “temporary disruption” to the Learning@Home website, the Education Department tweeted, and they were working to resolve the issue.

The online portal is a vital resource tool for students to learn remotely under adult supervision.

Parents and carers took to social media wanting to know when the portal would be back online.

“We apologise for this short term interruption as we adapt to the learning at home model. Please remain patient as we work through it. Thank you,” the Education Department has tweeted several times.