Six more COVID-19 cases recorded in the NT, including a four-year-old child

Six more people, including a four-year-old child, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Northern Territory in the past 24 hours.

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SIX more people, including a four-year-old girl, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Northern Territory in the past 24 hours.

The NT government has reported that a girl, aged four, three women aged 33, 34 and 71, and two men, aged 33 and 42, are the latest cases.

The 71-year-old woman arrived on a repatriation flight from Chennai on Thursday, April 15.

The government said the woman is in the care of Royal Darwin Hospital for medical treatment unrelated to COVID-19.

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The other five cases all arrived in Darwin on a repatriation flight from New Delhi on Saturday, April 17, and are in the care of AUSMAT staff at the Howard Springs quarantine facility.

The 42-year-old man is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 while the other cases are all asymptomatic.

The new cases take the total number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed in the NT since the start of the pandemic to 130, with 89 of those having come from international repatriation flights.

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All cases have been related to international or interstate travel, and there have been no cases of community transmission.

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