The Queensland Government will not renew the lease of the Wellcamp quarantine facility when it expires next month.
The 1000-bed facility opened early last year to house those with COVID-19 who needed to quarantine.
It cost the State Government more than $220 million to set up, but only housed 730 people.
Health Minister Yvette D’Ath defended the government’s decision to build the quarantine facility.
“Wellcamp is a really important facility that we needed to commit to,” she said.
“The Commonwealth at the time did nothing to help us with quarantining people who were at risk of having COVID.
“We did what we needed to do.”
Queensland Opposition leader David Crisafulli said the facility was designed primarily for the purposes of upstaging the then Federal Government.
“From the very get go Wellcamp was about politics, not about people.”
This article appeared in On Our Selection News, 9 March 2023.
