Australian Indigenous Senator’s Family Make up Bulk of New COVID-19 Cases in Northern Territory

Australian Indigenous Senator’s Family Make up Bulk of New COVID-19 Cases in Northern Territory
Senator Malarndirri McCarthy (C) during Senate business in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Dec. 10, 2020. Sam Mooy/Getty Images
Steve Milne
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Senator Malarndirri McCarthy has confirmed that nine out of the 11 new positive COVID-19 cases in the Northern Territory (NT) are her direct family members.

In an interview with ABC news on Wednesday morning, she said that it was a distressing time and that her family members currently in the Centre for National Resilience (CNR) in Howard Springs (eight of the nine) are “concerned for each other and themselves, ” especially since two are 5-year-old twins.
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