Another 320 Aussies arrive on London, Delhi repatriation flights
ANOTHER Qantas repatriation flight from London will land in Darwin today. The flight, along with one from Delhi, are bringing another 320 stranded Aussies home
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ANOTHER Qantas repatriation flight from London will land in Darwin today.
The plane is expected to be carrying up to 175 Australians and is due to land at 12.55pm.
The flight follows the arrival of a flight from Delhi yesterday carrying 148 Australians desperate to get home after being stranded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Critical Care director Len Notaras said the repatriation operation was continuing smoothly.
Today’s flight is the third in the second round of three flights that Health Minister Natasha Fyles said would be arriving.
The total number of arrivals on the past three international flights is about 490.
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On Sunday, 171 Australians touched down at Darwin’s RAAF base.
All repatriated passengers will spend 14 days in quarantine at Howard Springs.
Ms Fyles said there was capacity for more than 500 Australians to be repatriated at Howard Springs at any given time.
“We have the ability to handle around 500 to 550 people on a rolling basis,” she said.
The first two flights worth of repatriated Australians that spent 14 days quarantining in Howard Springs have been released.
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A National Critical Care spokesman said there are now seven active COVID-19 cases in the NT – all passengers from repatriation flights who are being accommodated in separate quarantine at Howard Springs.
They range from a baby under the age of one to an 82-year-old woman.
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