NT deputy chief health officer Dr Charles Pain has said Sydneysiders will be free to come to the Territory without quarantine from tomorrow despite new COVID-19 cases in the city.
Territorians encouraged to start wearing masks as NT moves to revoke regional Victoria’s hotspot status
The Northern Territory’s deputy chief health officer has reversed the government’s position of the past several months and has urged Territorians to wear face masks in busy public spaces following the announcement the NT will open its borders to most residents of regional Victoria in four weeks.
Northern Territory to open to New Zealand travel in one-way quarantine-free travel bubble
A trans-Tasman travel bubble between the Northern Territory and New Zealand will become a reality within two weeks, after the nation’s leaders agreed to open international borders for the first time since COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in March.
NT records new COVID-19 ‘weak positive’, ‘highly unlikely to be infectious’: acting chief health officer
A man who flew into Darwin has tested positive to coronavirus on Monday morning but he is “highly unlikely to be infectious”, the acting chief health officer Dr Charles Pain has said.
NT suicide rates still high nearly halfway through NT Government’s prevention plan
Rates of suicide in the Northern Territory continue to lead the nation as the NT Government’s “scattergun approach” has delayed meaningful change, Mission Australia says.
NSW hotspot refugee who attempted to enter the NT by foot apprehended and charged
A man from a New South Wales hotspot has been arrested for allegedly illegally crossing the Northern Territory border on foot and hitchhiking after abandoning his vehicle in a culvert, NT Police said.
‘I believe we will see coronavirus in the Northern Territory’: Health Minister
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has said the Morrison Government needs to lift the cap on Australians returning home from overseas, suggesting it look to the Northern Territory, while the NT Health Minister Natasha Fyles has said while the NT is open to international arrivals, it has not told the Federal Government it will take returnees.
‘It’s pretty awesome’: Gunner pleads with Aussies to stay in the NT after quarantining
A day after celebrating interstate holiday-makers coming to the NT to quarantine as a “national service”, Chief Minister Michael Gunner now says the practice is “annoying”, but has also pleaded with people to stay in the Territory after quarantining.
Territory taxpayers picking up tab for quarantining interstate holiday-makers
Territory taxpayers have subsidised an estimated $2.6 million for quarantined hot spot travellers to come to the Northern Territory and then move on to other states for holidays after exiting mandatory quarantine.
New head of COVID-19 response team quietly appointed as licences for airport screening officers dropped
The Territory’s head of nursing and midwifery has been appointed to run the NT Government’s COVID-19 hazard management response team through an internal hiring process that was not made public and came shortly before the requirement for airport screening officers to be licenced was dropped, the NT Independent can reveal.
Elevated COVID-19 alerts for Brisbane, the Gold Coast lifted in NT after confusion
An order of “elevated COVID-19 alert” issued by the NT Government last weekend has been officially rescinded, after needlessly terrifying elderly and Indigenous Territorians and confusing everyone else.
NT’s new elevated COVID-19 alerts questioned as seniors no longer feel safe
Northern Territory Chief Health Officer Dr Hugh Heggie’s new restrictions on visitors from Brisbane and the Gold Coast have prompted concerns among the elderly, who say they no longer feel safe, while raising questions over how coronavirus hotspots are officially declared.