REVEALED: Where the 2500 people to do NT mandatory quarantine arrived from
MORE than 2500 people have completed mandatory quarantine since the Territory’s borders were reopened on July 17. Find out how many arrivals to do quarantine came from each jurisdiction HERE.
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- REVEALED: Where the 73,000 people to arrive in the NT since borders reopened came from
- 70,000 arrivals to the NT since borders reopened
MORE than 1500 Victorians have entered the Howard Springs quarantine facility since the NT’s borders reopened on July 17.
NT Health data obtained by the NT News shows there had been 2,506 arrivals received at the Howard Springs quarantine facility since July 17, as of Tuesday.
Victorians made up 62 per cent (1550) of those in quarantine, 26 per cent (653) were Territorians returning from a declared COVID-19 hot spot, 8 per cent (190) were from NSW, 2 per cent (57) were Queenslanders, 1 per cent from Western Australia (34), 0.5 per cent (14) from South Australia, 0.2 per cent (5) from Tasmania and 0.1 per cent (3) from the ACT.
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She said the facility had the capacity to care for about 3000 people and flagged that the NT government would be open to potentially using the former Inpex workers village to repatriate more Australians stuck overseas.
Upwards of $3m has already been spent to get the Howard Springs site operational and to staff it.
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