Wellcamp quarantine hub near Toowoomba to take travellers by year’s end
… 1,000-bed quarantine facility
… 500 beds operational by the end of December
… At this stage, the cabins will be used by domestic travellers returning from COVID hotspots
… rooms, medical treatment centre and kitchen
… Security and police offices
… home quarantine being trialled for a select number of returning Queenslanders next week
… the need for the state’s second quarantine facility
… “where COVID continues to be rampant, where there might be new strains, where they might not have had access to vaccination”
… “We anticipate there to be a continuing need for quarantine facilities.”
… Another 1,000-bed quarantine facility is being built in Queensland … [on] Army barracks site … near Brisbane Airport