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 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.
Northern Territory health professionals are currently training for a potential outbreak of coronavirus in remote Indigenous communities ahead of the Territory’s borders opening on Friday.
Once again, the police declined to release where the four came from or explain why nobody has been sent to supervised quarantine after breaching health orders.
Seven more people have been fined for breaching quarantine rules in the NT, as police condemn the “selfish actions” of a few who put Territorians at risk.
