The Chief Health Officer has revoked Metropolitan Perth and the Peel Region in Western Australia as hotspots for the purposes of travel to the Northern Territory.
People arriving into the Northern Territory from Metropolitan Perth and the Peel Region will no longer have to undertake mandatory supervised quarantine in the NT. Anyone currently in mandatory supervised quarantine from Metropolitan Perth and the Peel Region will be able to exit.
Further to this, two Chief Health Officer testing directions have been updated and must be followed:
- Anyone who arrived in the Northern Territory between from 17 April 2021 and visited any of the higher risk public exposure sites identified by Western Australian health authorities, 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.
- Anyone who arrived into the Northern Territory from 17 April 2021 and visited any of the exposure sites on the specified dates and times as identified by the Western Australian health authorities, must self-quarantine, book a test, and remain in quarantine until a negative test is returned.
A list of Western Australia COVID-19 public exposure sites can be found at https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Coronavirus/Locations-visited-by-confirmed-cases
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