More than three dozen people who arrived in the NT from Melbourne may have violated their COVID-19 self-isolation orders over the weekend, NT Police said.


More than three dozen people who arrived in the NT from Melbourne may have violated their COVID-19 self-isolation orders over the weekend, NT Police said.

The Territory’s front line workers and vulnerable people are set to be inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine from next week, the Northern Territory Government has announced.

Thousands of Territorians have had their personal and business emails released in a data-breaching mass email sent by the Health Department in relation to the government’s COVID-19 Territory Check In app.

An airline employee working in Darwin, who travelled from Dili, has been slapped with a $5,000 penalty for breaching COVID-19 protocols, NT Police said in a confusing statement on Thursday.

UPDATED: A woman who travelled from WA to Darwin has been fined more than $5000 after authorities found she breached quarantine protocols by not isolating after getting a COVID-19 test, while Perth’s hotspot status will be revoked.

Melbourne suburbs have been declared coronavirus hotspots by the NT’s Chief Health Officer effective immediately, after a 26-year-old Australian Open hotel worker tested positive for COVID-19.

Perth and other parts of Western Australia have been declared COVID-19 hotspots while travel restrictions from nine areas in Sydney’s Western Suburbs have been relaxed, the NT chief health officer has announced.

Five people have been slapped with infringement penalties for allegedly violating NT Health directions to self-isolate following the Sydney and Northern Beaches hotspot declaration in December, authorities said on Wednesday.

A Territory medical expert has suggested delaying the release of the first group of foreign and Australian defence personnel who underwent quarantine in a Darwin CBD hotel until health officials and the public know what variant of coronavirus was found in the quarantine facility last week.

NT health authorities have avoided questions about the two positive COVID-19 cases of military officials in hotel quarantine, with Chief Health Officer Hugh Heggie backing out of a planned ABC Radio interview on Thursday morning, while the government said Health Minister Natasha Fyles was still on a holiday break.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian and foreign military officials and their families on board an international flight scheduled to land in Darwin today will quarantine at an undisclosed local hotel instead of the international quarantine facility at Howard Springs, the NT Independent can reveal.

The Gunner Government will pay for the flights of people from Sydney who chose not to go into quarantine after a hotspot was declared, while the Health Minister has said there is no set policy on waiving quarantine fees and that she would “not predict” what the government would do in the future.