NT revokes hot spot declarations for Perth and Peel region

The Northern Territory will revoke its hot spot declaration for the Perth and Peel region after no new community cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed.

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The Northern Territory will revoke its hot spot declaration for the Perth and Peel region after no new community cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed.

The region entered a three-day lockdown on Friday amid a COVID-19 outbreak at Perth’s Mercure Hotel.

In response NT’s acting chief health officer Dr Charles Pain declared Perth and the Peel region a hot spot the same day.

WA Premier Mark McGowan said since the lockdown began, there have only been two cases of community transmission detected in the state.

Health Minister Natasha Fyles announced today that the NT will revoke its hot spot declarations for the Perth and Peel region “pretty much immediately.”

“We will revoke that hot spot which means anyone who is in mandatory quarantine is able to exit that quarantine and with incoming flights from Perth metropolitan or Peel, they will no longer need to enter mandatory quarantine,” she said.

It comes after a man from WA was recently fined $5000 for entering the Territory without submitting an online border form.

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