NT records 17 new COVID cases, including 14 in Katherine East risk area
The Northern Territory has recorded 17 new cases of COVID in the past 24 hours, including 16 local cases.
Fourteen of the new cases are from households in four streets in Katherine East, where a testing blitz had been taking place. Of those 14 cases, eight are children under 12, five are aged in their 20s, 30s or 40s, and one is a 70-year-old woman.There was also one positive case from an international repatriation flight."The blitz is working. We are finding the cases that we thought were there."Ms Manison flagged that there was a "very strong chance" remote communities would record COVID cases in coming days.
"For the other communities where we have received positive wastewater results in the past few days, we are expecting to get a new round of results back at the end of the day," she said.
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