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.
COVID-19 vaccine for 4,500 Territorians in first phase
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.
‘Bordering on negligent’: NT Health releases personal data in COVID app breach
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.
Airline worker who was allowed to work while awaiting COVID test results fined for breach
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.
Woman from WA fined for not isolating after getting COVID test, as NT lifts Perth hotspot status
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 back on NT hotspot list after positive COVID case
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.
NT lifts NSW hotspot status as travellers from Perth forced to quarantine
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 fined for ‘gambling with the lives of Territorians’ in public health breach: NT Police
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.
Defence personnel in Darwin hotel quarantine released as details of virus remain unclear
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.
‘Should be sounding alarm bells’: Concerns raised over hotel quarantine COVID-19 cases
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.
ADF members and international guests to skip quarantine facility for Darwin hotel
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.
Gunner Government to manage quarantine fee waiving on ad hoc basis
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.