Four people have tested positive for coronavirus in the NT
THE NT has recorded its 26th coronavirus case. It comes as four more people tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, including a young woman who had not travelled out of the Territory recently
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THE NT has recorded its 26th coronavirus case.
It comes as four more people tested positive overnight to COVID-19.
All cases are related to interstate or international travel.
It’s understood a woman in her 20s — who had not travelled out of the Territory — was living, and self-isolating, with someone who tested positive earlier this month after travelling overseas.
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A Darwin man, aged in his 40s, had been in self-quarantine after returning home from Africa when he became unwell.
Another man, aged in his 50s, became unwell while in self-quarantine after returning from the United Kingdom.
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A woman, aged in her 50s, who had travelled to South America became unwell while in self-quarantine.
Under national medical guidelines, contact tracing on flights is not required due to the delay between their return to Darwin and becoming unwell.
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The fourth case, a woman in her 20s, was in self-quarantine and is a close family contact of another Territorian already diagnosed with COVID-19 who had returned from overseas.
All four people are now in the care of Royal Darwin Hospital.
Twenty-six cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the Northern Territory to date, all connected to international or interstate travel.
Originally published as Four people have tested positive for coronavirus in the NT