By Charlie Moore, Political Reporter For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 23:07 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 13 January 2021
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Queensland wants to use Outback mining camps instead of Brisbane hotels to quarantine returned travellers, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Thursday.
The state will propose the option to National Cabinet after coronavirus spread through a quarantine hotel, possibly through the air-conditioning, infecting a cleaner and another couple in quarantine.
Insurance Loans Mortgage Attorney Credit LawyerBrisbane's Grand Chancellor Hotel was evacuated on Wednesday night as officials scrambled to work out how UK super-strain of coronavirus leaked.
A total of 129 travellers, some of whom were just an hour from being released, have been forced to restart their two-week quarantine in new hotels.
On Thursday Queensland recorded four more cases of coronavirus, all in hotel quarantine but not linked to the Grand Chancellor Hotel.