BREAKING: COVID-19 restrictions in Darwin are being extended for another 24 hours. Those in Katherine will ease partially at 3pm today, and then lift fully alongside Darwin’s at midnight tomorrow.
Residents of Katherine will partially emerge from lockdown at 3pm on Sunday, joining Darwin in a 'lockout' where only vaccinated people can move about in the community.It comes as the Northern Territory reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and it was revealed the source of the current outbreak was a 21-year-old woman who tested positive on Saturday and lied on her border declaration form.
Five hours of interviews revealed the woman who arrived in Darwin from Queensland on 29 October had spent four days in Victoria last month, including some time in Melbourne "where she almost certainly contracted the virus", Chief Minister Michael Gunner said.The woman spent last weekend with the man at the Mantra Hotel in Darwin. The man then tested positive to the virus on Thursday in Katherine, 320km south of Darwin, where he works at RAAF Tindal.
Mr Gunner said the discovery of the source of the cluster was “very good news” and meant the Territory remained “community transmission free”. "We've had a doughnut day, no positives and we now know the source of the infection. I'm confident that come midnight tomorrow, we can transition out of the lockout. So keep doing what you are doing, you are doing great," he said.
The decision to extend the Greater Darwin lockout by 24 hours was to allow authorities to get on top of contact tracing and testing, he added.
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