NT reduces NSW hot spot list from 30 to 9, allowing more Sydneysiders to come in freely

THE Northern Territory has revoked the hot spot status of nearly two dozen local government areas in Greater Sydney

THE Northern Territory has revoked the hot spot status of nearly two dozen local government areas in Greater Sydney.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner on Tuesday morning announced that on the advice of chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie, the NT will reduce the number of declared hot spot areas from 30 to 9 effective immediately.

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Travellers who have been in those nine local government areas must quarantine for two weeks at the Howard Springs or Alice Springs quarantine facility, at their own cost, upon arrival in the NT.

Greater Sydney local government areas that remain a hot spot for purposes of travel to the NT are: Blacktown, Canada Bay, Canterbury-Bankstown, Fairfield, Parramatta, Cumberland, Inner West Council, Burwood, and Strathfield.

Five locally acquired COVID-19 cases were detected in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm.

That number includes two cases first identified on Monday — a man who presented to Mount Druitt hospital on Saturday and his wife.

Two new cases were detected in the northern beaches and one case was linked with the Berala cluster. The cases were detected in just 14,700 tests.

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian said testing rates needed to increase in order to meet the NSW target of zero community transmission.