A border town split between Queensland and New South Wales, is seeing locals struggle to manage with different restrictions in place.

Mungindi, about 550 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, has seen essential services, including the local grocery store, inaccessible for Queensland-side residents because crossing the border will mean a 14-day quarantine.

Locals want the border zone bubble to be reinstated, but it is still unclear when the community may be reunited.