Seven new COVID-19 cases among returned Australians quarantining in the NT

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Six adults and a baby who recently returned from overseas test positive to coronavirus in quarantine in Darwin, in the Northern Territory's largest single-day case increase yet.

The Northern Territory has recorded another seven cases of coronavirus — all among Australians who recently arrived on Federal Government-organised repatriation flights.All are in supervised quarantine after returning to Australia on repatriation flights in the past few daysThe new cases include five adults in their 20s and 30s, alongside a baby boy, who returned from Chennai, India on New Year's Day.

Forty-seven of those cases have been among the 2,192 people who have returned to Australia since Qantas flights began repatriating people from England, India, France and Germany in late October.

 

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So no new cases then.

Bring the Aussies home they say.

Do we really need a news article for every covid case *in hotel quarantine*?

Anyone could have predicted what was going to happen. Now all of Australia will end up paying the price for this.

Stop letting them in 🤦‍♀️

Is the one from London carrying the new variant?

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