Top Australian Official: We’re Transferring COVID-19 Patients to Quarantine Camps

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner addresses the media at a press conference at NT parliament house, in Darwin, Australia, July 1, 2021. AAP Image/Aaron Bunch

Australian authorities are removing COVID-19-positive patients and residents in the Northern Territory to a quarantine camp in Howard Springs, after nine cases were identified in the community of Binjari, according to a local official.

Hard lockdowns were implemented in Binjari and nearby Rockhole on Nov. 20, according to Northern Territory’s chief minister.