Lakes Entrance and Shepparton arrivals required to test and isolate in NT
Northern Territory health officials will require arrivals from a regional area of Victoria to get tested and isolate after an unexpected result from sewage monitoring.
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HEALTH authorities in the regional Victorian local government areas of Lakes Entrance and Greater Shepparton are scrambling to find the cause of an unexpected Covid-positive sample in the region’s wastewater.
Residents from those regions who arrived in the Northern Territory after August 8 will now be required to get tested for Covid-19 and isolate until they receive a negative result.
The direction from chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie was made effective from 12.30pm Saturday.
It comes amid 21 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 in Melbourne overnight.
Melbourne is now into its second week of its sixth lockdown since the pandemic began, as authorities wrangle to bring the contagious Delta variant under control.
New South Wales meanwhile reported 466 cases overnight, with authorities there considering a state-wide lockdown to deal with a surge in cases.
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