Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the new hospital will be built in partnership with private firm Mater Health in Springfield, a former satellite city of Ipswich.
âThis is something we should really be seriously investigating because hotel quarantine presents our greatest vulnerability,â Professor Griffin said.
âIt is where all our coronavirus cases are coming from. We know there is a lag between being vaccinated and getting maximum protection, but there is also now a growing risk of acquiring the infection in the hotel quarantine system.â
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The push for mandatory vaccination of returned travellers comes as genomic sequencing confirmed a Victorian man who tested positive for COVID-19 had contracted the virus in his final days of hotel quarantine in Adelaide.
The idea has the backing of several leading epidemiologists who say more outbreaks at quarantine hotels are inevitable as the virus runs rampant in parts of the world.