NT CHO announces testing and quarantine directions for anyone who went to SA cafe and servo

UPDATE: Chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie has announced Covid-19 directions for anyone who visited a South Australian cafe and servo on July 9.

UPDATE: Anyone in the Territory who has visited public exposure sites in South Australia is required to self-isolate and get tested immediately.

Chief Health officer Hugh Heggie announced directions for anyone who visited the Coolabah Cafe and Shell Coles Express in Tailem Bend, South Australia on July 9 between 5.20pm and 7pm.

Anyone who visited these locations, a nd their household members, during the time is required to follow South Australian quarantine directions:

- Immediately quarantine for 14 days since you were at the location;

- Get tested immediately;

- Get tested again on day 5 and day 13;

- Notify SA Health.

Anyone who visited the location but not at the specified time and date should monitor for symptoms and get tested if they develop.

EARLIER: NORTHERN Territory chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie will enter a meeting with his interstate counterparts to be updated on the deteriorating Covid-19 situation in New South Wales and Victoria.

The NT News understands the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) would be meeting on Wednesday.

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Any update on hot spot declarations and border restrictions for people entering the NT would be made after around 3pm.

CHO Dr Hugh Heggie. Picture: Che Chorley

It comes as the nation’s two most populated states face concerning rates of local transmission.

New South Wales recorded 97 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, and on Tuesday reported one case from Goulburn, in regional NSW.

Currently only Greater Sydney has been declared a hot spot by NT Health.

The government has been urging Territorians in regional NSW to return to the NT in case the outbreak spreads beyond Sydney.

Testing in Sydney.

Victoria on Wednesday also recorded seven new locally acquired cases, four of which were found in a Melbourne apartment block visited by infected removalists from Sydney.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday July 10 has been declared an exposure site.

Sydney’s outbreak of the highly infectious Delta strain has plunged the city into a prolonged lockdown, with the state currently treating 825 active cases.

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