Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet
The Chief Health Officer will declare Metropolitan Perth, the Peel Region and the South West Region of Western Australia as COVID-19 Hotspots for the purposes of travel to the Northern Territory from 7.30pm on 31 January 2021.
This follows on from a male security guard who works in a Perth hotel quarantine facility testing positive to COVID-19. There are four active COVID-19 cases at the quarantine facility, including two cases with the UK variant strain and one case with the South African variant strain. These mutant strains are known to be highly contagious.
Anyone travelling to the Northern Territory from a COVID-19 Hotspot must undertake 14 days of mandatory, supervised quarantine at the Alice Springs or Howard Springs quarantine facilities at a cost of $2,500 per person. Quarantine will be undertaken at the first urban centre you arrive at, including for transit.
