Five people in NT quarantine test positive for COVID-19
FIVE new positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the Northern Territory in the past 24 hours, all of them in quarantine.
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FIVE new positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the Northern Territory in the past 24 hours.
Four of these cases are in people who arrived into the Territory on a repatriation flight from India on New Year’s Day.
Those who tested positive include a 17-month-old boy, a 30-year-old woman, a three-year-old girl, and a 73-year-old man.
A 21-month-old boy who arrived on a repatriation flight from Frankfurt on 3 January has also tested positive for the virus.
Four of the cases are asymptomatic and remain at Howard Springs.
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One has mild symptoms and has been transferred to the Royal Darwin Hospital.
There have been 53 positive cases in that time.
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