Northern Territory Brings Back Mandatory Quarantine

A man gestures to the cameras in an inner-city hotel where travellers returned from overseas are staying in isolation in Melbourne on March 30, 2020. William West/AFP via Getty Images

Mandatory supervised quarantine for Melbourne residents who visit the Northern Territory could be in place for a year due to a new coronavirus outbreak in the nation’s second-most populous city.

The Territory government responded to the spike in Victoria by announcing on Sunday that arrivals from designated COVID-19 hot spots would be put into forced quarantine.