Latest plane load of repatriated Aussies touched down from Germany on Sunday

MORE than 2200 overseas arrivals have undergone quarantine in the Howard Springs facility to date

• Third cattle crew ship crew member tests positive for COVID
• NT remains only jurisdiction that still hasn’t done any COVID wastewater testing yet

MORE than 2200 overseas arrivals have undergone quarantine in the Howard Springs facility to date, with the latest planeload of repatriated Aussies touching down from Germany yesterday.

About 180 passengers aboard a repatriation flight from Frankfurt arrived in Darwin and were taken to the Howard Springs facility at midday yesterday, bringing the total number of repatriated Aussies to arrive there since the first flight last October to well over 2200.

A total of 47 positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded among those repatriated Aussies to date.

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This factors in seven new cases, including a baby boy, recorded over the weekend among passengers that recently arrived from the UK and India.

The NT also recorded another new positive COVID-19 case yesterday, after a 36-year-old became the third crew member from the cattle ship Diamantina to test positive.

It comes as a coronavirus cluster around western Sydney continued to grow over the weekend.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian also moved to introduce mandatory mask-wear-ing in Greater Sydney, including the Central Coast, Wollongong and Nepean Blue Mountains.

Health Minister Natasha Fyles was pressed on why the NT was still open to the Central Coast, Wollongong and Nepean Blue Mountains areas when residents there were under strict restrictions.

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“The Territory government continues to closely monitor emerging COVID-19 cases in other jurisdictions and acts on clinical advice from the Chief Health Officer,” she said. “This advice has kept us safe to date.

“The Northern Territory has had no community transmission of the virus and no deaths.

“We’ve shown time and time again, we will do whatever it takes, and we will declare a hot spot quickly and without warning, if the need arises.

“We continue to advise all Territorians against travel to NSW or Victoria at this time.”