QLD travellers not allowed to visit NT aged care homes, communities

VISITORS from the Gold Coast and greater Brisbane area are now forbidden from visiting remote communities and aged care homes in the Territory, after QLD recorded four new cases of COVID-19 yesterday

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VISITORS from the Gold Coast and greater Brisbane area are now forbidden from visiting remote communities and aged care homes in the Territory, after QLD recorded four new cases of COVID-19 yesterday.

The NT has introduced tougher restrictions on travellers from parts of southern Queensland due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.

It comes as lockdown restrictions are expanded across 120 locations across Queensland after the state recorded four new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.

The NT has declared the Gold Coast and Greater Brisbane area geographical areas of elevated COVID-19 alert.

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This means people who arrived in the NT from those regions in the past 14 days are forbidden from visiting remote communities, residential aged care or disability facilities.

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Health authorities said this declaration doesn’t mean travellers from those areas will be forced into mandatory quarantine centres across Howard Springs or Alice Springs.

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