Travellers who visited Sydney will be forced to enter a 14-day quarantine period if they wish to enter the Northern Territory as border restrictions are ramped up in the Top End.
The territory was set to reopen its borders to the rest of Australia from Friday, barring Victoria and visitors from Sydney. NT health authorities declared all 31 local government areas in Sydney as hotspots due to a growing coronavirus cluster at the Crossroads Hotel in the city's south-west.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner said it would be a “roll of the dice” to open borders to Sydney and insisted he did not “gamble with the lives of Territorians.” The ban on Sydney will be reviewed in two weeks while a police presence was set to remain on NT borders for the foreseeable future. Image: Getty
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