Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet
The Chief Health Officer has directed that anyone who has arrived in the Northern Territory between 17 April 2021 and 12:01am, 24 April 2021, and attended any of the higher risk Public Exposure Sites listed by Western Australian health officials here must undertake 14 days of self-isolation at a suitable place for quarantine, as directed by an authorised officer, and be tested on days 1, 7 and 12 after entering quarantine.
If a place of quarantine is deemed not to be suitable, the CHO will direct quarantine to be undertaken at Howard Springs or Alice Springs Quarantine Facilities.
This expands upon the direction by the Chief Health Officer on Friday 23 April 2021, that declared anyone who has arrived into the Northern Territory between 17 April 2021 and 12:01am on Friday 24 April 2021, and visited any of the exposure sites on the specified dates and times as identified by the Western Australian authorities must self-quarantine, book a test, and remain in quarantine until a negative test is returned.
Today's direction follows on from another case linked to Perth's hotel quarantine cluster, thought to have been transmitted at a restaurant, now listed by Western Australia as a high-risk public exposure site.
Other Chief Health Officer directions remain active, including:
· Metropolitan Perth and Peel Region hotspot;
· Mandatory supervised quarantine requirements for anyone who has arrived into the Northern Territory who travelled on QF778 between Perth and Melbourne on 21 April 2021; and
· Testing and quarantine requirements for anyone in the Northern Territory who transited through Melbourne Airport's Terminal 1 between the specified dates and times.
Anyone travelling to the Northern Territory from a COVID-19 Hotspot which currently includes Metropolitan Perth and the Peel Region of Western Australia from 12:00am on 24 April 2021 onward must undertake 14 days of mandatory, supervised quarantine at the Alice Springs or Howard Springs quarantine facilities. Quarantine will be undertaken at the first urban centre you arrive at, even if you were in transit to another destination.
