Mining camps as quarantine facilities
Ms Palaszczuk said she will be taking a proposal to utilise mining camps as COVID-19 quarantine facilities to National Cabinet next Friday. These investigations will continue about looking at different options, she said. There needs to be a lot of work that s done there. We need to have these options on the table because, as we know, there s a lot of this UK strain circulating at the moment in UK, and parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and we do need to make sure that we have the best lines of defence here in Queensland. Good news after Grand Chancellor Hotel scare
The 27-year-old was told she would be required to restart her hotel quarantine period in a new location, despite having already undergone five Covid tests.
A woman who was quarantined in a Gold Coast hotel says she saw staff, including cleaners, not wearing masks during her stay. It comes as Queensland Health investigates how a Brisbane cleaner contracted the UK strain of COVID-19 last month.
Two days of zero cases and widespread compliance has not been enough for the Premier and Chief Health Officer to declare the mutant COVID-19 strain defeated.
Two days of zero cases and widespread compliance has not been enough for the Premier and Chief Health Officer to declare the mutant COVID-19 strain defeated.