{"id":304234,"date":"2021-08-16T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=304234"},"modified":"2021-08-16T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:27:30","slug":"darwin-katherine-declared-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/08\/16\/darwin-katherine-declared-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin, Katherine Declared Hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 16, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Queensland Health will declare Greater Darwin and the Katherine region COVID-19 hotspots after a man in his 30s tested positive for COVID-19 and spent time in the community while infectious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the positive case meant there was a need to take action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From 1:00am on Wednesday (August 18), the Greater Darwin and Katherine regions will be declared as hotspots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Anyone arriving into Queensland from this time who has been in these areas since August 12 will need to go into hotel quarantine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone who has already arrived, or arrives in Queensland from the Greater Darwin and Katherine regions before 1:00am on Wednesday should monitor their symptoms and get tested immediately if they experience symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Restrictions will also apply to the State\u2019s prisons, aged care facilities, disability accommodation services and hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFrom 1:00am, Wednesday, anyone who has been in these NT hotspots on or after August 12 cannot enter these facilities, except for end-of-life visits unless 14 days have passed since they were there,\u201d Dr Young said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr Young said Queensland would continue to monitor the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There were no new active cases reported in Queensland on Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland Health will declare Greater Darwin and the Katherine region COVID-19 hotspots after a man in his 30s tested positive for COVID-19 and spent time in the community while infectious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":254316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1455,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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