Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner announces that Greater Sydney will be removed from the Northern Territory's list of coronavirus hotspots on October 9, if the number of cases there remains low.
The Northern Territory will open its borders to residents from the Greater Sydney area in four weeks' time if Sydney's COVID-19 case numbers remain low.
But NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said if Sydney continued to contain its coronavirus cases, the NT would remove Greater Sydney from its hotspot list on Friday, October 9. "The testing being done and the links of almost all new cases, the known clusters, gives us a high degree of confidence that there are no unknown outbreaks occurring," he said."If things change [and] the trend goes back up in Sydney, we will not hesitate to keep their hotspot status in place for as long as we need to," Mr Gunner said.
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