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Queensland considers using mining camps for quarantine

Cases of the new UK variant detected in a Brisbane hotel have sparked concerns of a fast-spreading cluster across Australia, and authorities in Queensland are looking to use mining camps as quarantine facilities for travellers returning to the state. No new locally acquired cases have been recorded in Australia as yet. People from various states who were quarantined in the hotel but had since travelled inter-state were ordered to isolate and be tested. Just when Australian authorities seem to think that they have killed the virus once and for all, it keeps resurfacing, just