The NT Chief Minister says he is 'fairly confident' but not certain the lockdown will end tomorrow. 9News
NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said he was "fairly confident" but not certain the lockdown would end at midday tomorrow.Darwin CBD during lockdown on August 16, 2021.
He said the government would work today on what restrictions would need to remain after stay-at-home orders were lifted.Confirmation is set to come tomorrow. A total of 2128 people were tested yesterday in the Northern Territory, all of whom returned a negative result.A total of 81 close contacts are still in the NT, and all are in isolation, with all but one tested.Residents in Darwin and Katherine
on Monday after a man who had travelled into Sydney from overseas and quarantined for 14 days, before coming to the NT for work, tested positive.NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said five people at an accommodation facility on Mitchell Street in Darwin had been fined for breaching lockdown orders."Doesn't fit the definition of exercise, as much as some would like it to," he said.
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