More stranded Aussies arrive home as latest repatriation flight from London touches down in Darwin

PASSENGERS from the latest repatriation flight bringing 171 Australians home amid the global coronavirus pandemic have settled into life at Howard Springs

THE latest repatriation flight bringing 171 Australians home amid the global coronavirus pandemic has touched down at Darwin’s RAAF base yesterday, with its passengers now settled into Howard Springs.

Passengers from flight QF110 will spend the next 14 days in quarantine, after landing in Darwin about 1pm.

The flight left from Heathrow Airport in London.

Repatriation flight QF110 has touched down in Darwin this afternoon. Picture: Glenn Campbell

A SecureNT spokeswoman said yesterday almost 200 new arrivals meant there was nearly 700 people in the Howard Springs quarantine facility, either as repatriated Australians or serving quarantine after arriving from hot spot areas.

“As at 2.30pm (Sunday) there are 316 people in the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility,” she said.

“This does not include the 352 repatriated Australians in the care of the National Trauma Response Centre at the Centre for National Resilience.”

It means there is now a total of 352 repatriated Australians in quarantine at the Centre for National Resilience Howard Springs.

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Two further flights are expected to arrive in Darwin this week - a flight from India on Wednesday and a flight from London on Thursday.