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NT Chief Health Officer notice on NT border restrictions, with changes to lengths of interstate entrants' quarantine depending on when they left designated hotspots, and to rules about children. For full details see NT Government COVID hotspots page and NT CHO Directions #49.
NT Government
UNESCO resources with reports on how Indigenous peoples around the world are affected by, and are responding to, the pandemic.
UN Dept of Economic and Social Affairs: COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples. Information including links to 400 reports, recommendations, announcements and translations from around the world on how COVID-19 is affecting Indigenous peoples.
https://coronavirus.nt.gov.au/travel/quarantine/hotspots-covid-19
Travellers need to keep checking which areas have been declared COVID-19 hotspots, as the COVID-19 situation is continually changing. Even after arriving in the NT, you may need to take action if you were previously in one of the currently-declared hotspots. For more detail, see the NT Chief Health Officer Directions and the NT Government COVID-19 page at https://coronavirus.nt.gov.au.
NT Government via Gemco Community News
This document is an update to ALC Coronavirus Management Plan of 9th April. The focus of the update, on p. 16, is the adoption of the Contain and Test strategy developed by Congress and AMSANT.
ALC
Arrivals in the NT from "hotspots" will face mandatory quarantine from 17th July. The NT Government has declared the State of Victoria, and on 15-7-2020 added Greater Metropolitan Sydney, as hotspots, and advises that all non-essential travel out of the NT is cancelled at this time. See the NT Government Hotspot Webpage.
NT Government, Department of the Chief Minister
Update on NT cases. From 17th July, NT border restrictions will end, except for people from declared 'hotspots', who will have to to complete mandatory supervised quarantine at their own cost ($2,500). All of Victoria is currently a 'hotspot'. All arrivals to NT - even if not from 'hotspots', have to complete a pre-arrival border crossing application | link.
NT Government, Department of the Chief Minister, 'East Arnhem Covid 19 Team'
The NT Government is providing a comprehensive community communications plan with respect to a "Contain & Test" strategy. They have asked that the ALC work together with them to get messaging out, so there is consistency and no confusion. The ALC is working with the police and NTG Health to bolster the local pandemic plan to include Contain & Test. This will include scenario planning specific to Groote.
ALC
A proposal for a 'contain and test' strategy for implementation on the discovery a COVID-19 case in a remote Aboriginal community, with attention to community decision making and control, and cultural safety. It outlines how households would be confined and tested, relocation of vulnerable people, restrictions on all movement between communities, plus delivery of food and support to households. The document also notes a number of key challenges.
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory
AMSANT and its member Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) raise a number of issues about the pandemic response in the NT, expressing concern about emergency plans which are more suited to cyclone response and which have limited input from and communication with community and Aboriginal Health bodies. The document makes suggestions about testing, evacuation, quarantine and community closures, and additional medical capacities.
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT (AMSANT)
The NT has recorded a new coronavirus case, a traveller returning from overseas via Melbourne. The traveller completed hotel quarantine in Melbourne on arrival and has been self-isolating in Darwin since arriving in NT. This is the only known case in the NT and there continues to remain zero known cases of COVID-19 in the Groote Archipelago.
NT Government, Department of the Chief Minister, 'East Arnhem Covid 19 Team'
The Groote Eylandt Health/Chemist Store is now open from Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm, Closed 1-2pm for lunch and Saturday 9am - 12pm. Closed Sunday and public holidays
Groote Eylandt Health/Chemist Store
