Toowoomba, Gladstone to have quarantine camps under proposed COVID-19 scheme

The regional Queensland cities of Toowoomba and Gladstone would be included in a proposed scheme to quarantine international arrivals away from urban areas, the premier has revealed.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has taken her plan to send travellers who are potentially infectious with COVID-19 to regional mining camps, instead of city hotels, to National Cabinet on Friday.

“I put to the prime minister some options about where we could look some at alternative quarantine, away from our capital…