The Territory’s first case of community transmission of COVID will see Katherine placed under a 72-hour lockdown from midnight, with a three-day “lockout” for Darwin, Palmerston, and the rural area, after a RAAF Tindal base contractor tested positive to COVID-19, Chief Minister Michael Gunner has said.
Fully-vaccinated domestic travellers arriving in the NT will be permitted to home quarantine from November 23 and will no longer need to undergo the 14-day mandatory supervised quarantine, Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced this morning.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has announced that nearly all Territorians will need to get vaccinated by November 12, or possibly lose their jobs and be fined $5000 as of November 13, under the strictest vaccine mandate rules in the country. READ THE LIST HERE
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has decreed that nearly every Territorian must be vaccinated by November 12, or could lose their jobs and be repeatedly fined $5000.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has conceded the Territory will not hit the coveted 80 per cent vaccination rate needed to provide “more freedoms” by the date originally forecast, and offered a best-guess revised timetable of “late November, maybe early December”.
Territorians are being reminded to register for the latest round of the $200 Territory Tourism vouchers program which kicks off tonight at 8 pm, with previous rounds of funding snatched up in minutes.
COVID-19 fragments have been detected in wastewater samples taken from Darwin’s Berrimah treatment plant, NT Health has confirmed, suggesting the results could be from interstate freight and transport workers who have not quarantined.
A woman who processed interstate travellers at the airport has been arrested for allegedly offering advice on how to falsify travel records and for providing classified information to a man in an attempt to dodge the NT’s mandatory quarantine rules late last month, NT Police said.
The Gunner Government’s suite of COVID-19 stimulus programs introduced last year that cost Territory taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars saw ineligible businesses approved for funding, conflicts of interest, no way to determine if objectives were met and money set aside for senior public servant Shaun Drabsch to award at his discretion, an Auditor General’s report has found.
Even at a vaccine rate of 80 per cent, Mr Gunner said there could still be lockdowns or what he called a “lock-out” – which would see those vaccinated given a “freedom pass” to enjoy activities that unvaccinated people would not be permitted to undertake.
A man who claimed to have entered the NT on foot to explore Arnhem Land has been ordered to pay a $5000 COVID-19 infringement penalty for failing to complete a border entry form, authorities said.
NT Police officers wanted to fine Darwin ‘freedom’ protesters for not wearing masks or social distancing but their Superintendent stopped them, saying they were protected by a permit issued by the Northern Land Council, a permit the organisation says did not and could not exist, a well-placed source has told the NT Independent.
