One new Covid-19 case recorded in Northern Territory as woman fined for road trip

A woman who should have been in two weeks of self-isolation has been handed a whopping fine after heading on a road trip instead.

A woman has been fined thousands of dollars after ignoring strict stay-at-home orders in the Northern Territory, as the state recorded one new case on Thursday.

The 46 year-old woman was fined $5056 after travelling hundreds of kilometres to the remote town of Jabiru in the Kakadu National Park, which is currently not subjected to any restrictions.

Authorities confirmed the woman had links to the Buff Club, which has been deemed an exposure site.

NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said the woman should have been in self-isolation for 14 days, and had been transferred to quarantine.

“Police engaged with her last night,” Mr Chalker said.

“She will be receiving an infringement notice and is currently being transferred to the [Howard Springs] Centre of National Resilience.”

It comes as the state recorded one new case on Thursday - a man, was a close contact of the initial miner who tested positive, has been in quarantine at Howard Springs throughout his infectious period.

Lockdowns imposed on Greater Darwin and Alice Springs continue.

The positive case is a man from the Tanami gold mine who was a close contact of the original case.

The outbreak from the gold mine has grown to 12 people, while Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the man left the mine on Friday, June 25.

He was transferred to the Howard Springs quarantine facility as a high-risk contact.

NT chief health officer Hugh Heggie said contact tracers were pouring over CCTV footage from Alice Springs airport, where the original case passed through on the way back to Adelaide, and contacting as many potentially exposed people as possible.

He travelled to Adelaide on June 26 and initially returned a negative Covid, test but his wife and three of his four children have since tested positive, the chief minister said.

The miner later returned a positive test.

NT residents drive through a mass testing site at Marrara in Darwin after several new contact sites including the Buff Club on the Stuart Highway Picture: Glenn Campbell

Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced an extension to the Top End’s lockdown after several new contact sites including the Buff Club on the Stuart Highway. Picture: Glenn Campbell

“The person who tested positive when they got to Adelaide had spent seven hours in the airport; that's a lot of CCTV to look at in terms of the people from the cafe, indeed how just how close they actually had come within the (man) and so that takes the time,” Dr Heggie said.

“When they identify who they are and they will contact them.”

The case plunged Alice Springs into a three-day lockdown on Wednesday.

The lockdown will last 72 hours and began at 1pm local time.