Interstate arrivals should be put in forced quarantine, Territorians say
TERRITORIANS have started to call for all interstate arrivals to be put into forced hotel quarantine for 14 days as the number of coronavirus cases in the NT continues to rise. HAVE YOUR SAY IN OUR ONLINE POLL
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TERRITORIANS have started to call for all interstate arrivals to be put into forced hotel quarantine for 14 days as the number of coronavirus cases in the NT continues to rise.
It comes after Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced on Friday anyone entering the Territory on international flights would be put into the forced quarantine.
“About time...all must be quarentine,” Georgina Canete posted.
“Should be interstate flights as well,” Debbie Turner wrote.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that all arrivals to Australia will now be quarantined in hotels in the city they arrive in.
All of the NT’s cases so far have come from people arriving into the Northern Territory.
Most had previously been overseas.
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