NT Aboriginal community demands answers after residents sent home from quarantine test positive for Covid
Yuendumu community ‘very angry’ after close contacts flown home ‘unexpectedly’ from Alice Springs
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The Northern Territory government is under fire after a group of people taken into quarantine 10 days ago from a remote Aboriginal community were sent home on Sunday “unexpectedly” and subsequently tested positive for Covid-19.
The remote central Australian community of Yuendumu has asked NT Health to explain why the community members – who had been evacuated to the Alice Springs quarantine facility as close contacts – were flown home on 16 January and sent back to their homes without being tested on arrival, with local authorities saying they had not been informed of their return. A number of the group were Covid-positive when later tested by local health workers in the following two days.
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