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NT records six new coronavirus cases, all patients in quarantine at Howard Springs

The Northern Territory has recorded six new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours

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THE Northern Territory has recorded six new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, with all patients in isolation at the Howard Springs quarantine facility.

All six patients are international arrivals, five of whom arrived on the repatriation flight from New Delhi five days ago.

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The patients are two men in their 40s, a woman in her 30s and two women in their 50s.

The sixth case is a man in his 30s who arrived from New Delhi on November 24.

Since repatriation flights to the Northern Territory began on October 23 a total of 1331 international arrivals have undertaken quarantine at the Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience.

The total number of cases diagnosed in the Northern Territory to date is 60. The total number of active cases in the NT currently is 13.

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

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