Six people from same repatriation flight test positive to COVID-19 in the NT
Six people who arrived in the NT onboard the same repatriation flight have tested positive to coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
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SIX people who arrived in the NT onboard the same repatriation flight have tested positive to coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
The NT government has reported that two women, aged 29 and 55, and four men, aged 31, 38, 40 and 42, who arrived in the Territory on a repatriation flight from Chennai on Thursday have tested positive.
All six people are staying at the Howard Springs quarantine facility and are under the care of AUSMAT.
They say the 40-year-old man is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 while the other five people are asymptomatic.
The NT has recorded 120 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including 79 from people who had arrived on international repatriation flights.
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All cases have been related to international or interstate travel, and there had been no cases of community transmission.
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