Sydney’s Northern Beaches area has been declared a COVID-19 hotspot by NT health authorities, meaning all travelers to the NT from the area will face mandatory 14-day quarantine.

The NT Government’s mandatory quarantine facilities are expected to cost Territorians $150 million by the end of this financial year – but the actual costs per person have not been disclosed at Budget Estimates hearings.

Two children who were onboard a repatriation flight from India have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Howard Springs international quarantine facility, NT health authorities said, two days before they were scheduled to leave the facility.

Six additional positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the NT in the past 24 hours, all of which are connected to the repatriation flights from New Delhi, India, the government said.

A Darwin man who had travelled to Southeast Asian countries for work has been slapped with a $5,056 infringement penalty for breaching mandatory self-quarantine after he was spotted shopping and attending a bank while not wearing a mask, NT police said.

The NT’s COVID-19 contact tracing Quick Response (QR) app will be launched on Monday and will require Territorians to provide their basic information in venues they attend but the government hasn’t discussed how they will manage scammers who cheaply create QR codes for phishing attacks.

The Greater Adelaide region will no longer be considered a coronavirus hotspot as of Saturday morning, the NT’s chief health officer has declared, which will mean releasing all travelers who were put in supervised quarantine from the region this week.

The chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie has narrowed the South Australian COVID-19 hotspot declaration to Adelaide and surrounding suburbs after chaos in Alice Springs overnight.

The chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie has suggested people stick a quick response or QR code in their homes, as part of the government’s COVID-19 contact tracing safety plan.