He said hotel quarantine remained the âmost effective wayâ to deliver quarantine âat scaleâ. Mr Morrison struck a similar deal with the Northern Territory government in October. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk first floated the idea to shift quarantine facilities away from major population centres after an outbreak at a Brisbane hotel sent more than 2 million people into a three-day lockdown last month. Several cases of hotel quarantine staff being infected with COVID-19 in Melbourne and Perth in recent days has reignited debate about the ability of CBD hotels to handle new, more infectious strains of the virus, particularly given the increased risk of aerosol transmission.