The Queensland government has announced that it has struck a deal with billionaire John Wagner to build a fit-for-purpose regional COVID-19 quarantine facility at Wellcamp, Toowoomba, providing 1,000 beds to ease pressure on the hotel quarantine system. This comes less than 24 hours after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk slammed shut its borders for two weeks, citing pressure on the hotel quarantine system. The first 500 beds will be ready by the end of the year, with the remaining 500 expected by the end of the first financial quarter of 2022. Palaszcuk said hotels were not built to deal with the Delta strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. “We need regional quarantine facilities. I have been advocating this for a long, long time. It is a no brainer,” she told reporters on Thursday from Toowoomba, where she said works had already commenced. “Howard Springs …