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A veteran doctor says the nearest hospital to a proposed COVID-19 quarantine site in Queensland will need major upgrades for the plan to be feasible because at the moment it does not have any beds in its intensive care unit. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced mining camps could be used to house overseas arrivals, as the state tries to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious UK strain of COVID-19.Homeground Villages at Calliope in Central Queensland was been flagged as a possible quarantine facility for returned overseas travellers. Retired GP John Bird, who worked in Gladstone for 40 years, said the city's hospital lacked an infectious disease specialist and only had one bed in its isolation ward.