Facility in rural Queensland town flagged as potential COVID-19 quarantine hub for international travellers
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The village has 1,392 air-conditioned rooms and services the major industrial projects in the region.
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Homeground Villages at Calliope in Central Queensland has been flagged as a possible quarantine facility for returned overseas travellers the same site considered to house NRL players during the pandemic.
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The ABC understands a quarantine possibility is workforce accommodation at Calliope, west of Gladstone
The four-star Homeground Villages has 1,392 air-conditioned rooms with balconies, and facilities include a pool, tennis court and gym
QUEENSLAND S health workers are stressed and burned out, with two in five in the state s largest hospital saying their health has suffered in the past year as they ve worked through the COVID pandemic. The latest Working for Queensland survey has revealed the true feelings of nearly 27,000 Queensland Health staff members and shows the state s most stressed workers are at the largest Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital in Metro North, in Wide Bay and in the state s Central West, around Longreach. In all three of those hospital and health services, between two in five and one in two felt burned out or overloaded with work.