There are currently 600 people isolating at the Centre for National Resilience in Howard Springs and Alice Springs quarantine facility with many more expected.The Northern Territory has reported 286 new COVID-19 cases as an Australian Medical Assistance Team and the military step in to help combat a remote Aboriginal community outbreak.
There are currently 600 people isolating at the Centre for National Resilience in Howard Springs and Alice Springs quarantine facility with many more expected as the outbreak among the territory's Indigenous population grows."We have put extra resources into the prison. The total there is 89 ," Ms Fyles said.
Two new cases were reported at Amoonguna and one at Ntaria, also known as Hermannsburg, bringing the outbreak there to 35 infections.The Utopia cluster, 240km north of Alice Springs, also continues to grow with one new infection bringing the cluster to 30 infections.The community of about 1000 remains locked down and vaccination rates remain stubbornly low at 42 per cent double dosed.
Infections were also detected in Yirrkala, Nhulunbuy and Alyangula, on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Of those, 31 are in the Alice Springs hospital, two are in Katherine, seven are in Tennant Creek, one Nhulunbuy and 38 in Royal Darwin Hospital.
to be perfectly honest, given the federal government's response to the pandemic i wouldn't blame anyone if they preferred medical and military personnel from A DIFFERENT COUNTRY because then they'd be more likely to get any actual assistance or medical care.
Good to see sbs reporting this. We want to know. We are very concerned