The Chief Health Officer is revoking hotspots across the Cairns Regional Council and Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah Local Government Areas for the purposes of travel to the Northern Territory at 3.30pm on 11 August 2021.
While there will no longer be any hotspots across Queensland, hotspots remain in place across all of New South Wales and Greater Melbourne in Victoria.
People arriving in the Northern Territory from the Cairns Regional Council and Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah Local Government Areas will no longer have to undertake mandatory supervised quarantine in the NT. Anyone currently in mandatory supervised quarantine from these areas will be able to exit.
Revoking hotspots across the Cairns Regional Council and Aboriginal Shire of Yarrabah Local Government Areas aligns with the lifting of lockdown restrictions in those areas by Queensland health authorities. Significant testing has also been undertaken and no new positive cases have been recorded.
Testing and quarantine directions remain in place for those people who have visited a COVID-19 public exposure site in Queensland and are a close contact, casual contact or low risk contact.
Public exposure sites continue to change and it is important that those people who have arrived in the Northern Territory from Queensland check the Queensland Health website daily to review.
