Australia’s largest Covid-19 quarantine centre will be closed as the Northern Territory declares the pandemic is over and scraps vaccine mandates.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles announced the Howard Springs facility in Darwin will cease operations during a press conference on Thursday.
Vaccine mandates are also set to be scrapped in a weeks time on June 16 as the public health emergency comes to an end.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles announced the Howard Springs facility (pictured) in Darwin will cease operations during a press conference on Thursday
‘We have got through this so much better than we first feared back at the start,’ Ms Fyles told reporters.
‘Living with Covid means we’re now in a place where we can revoke many of the CHO directions such as exclusion zones, lock in areas, safety measures for businesses, quarantine workers and faciltate major events, crowd limits and mandatory vaccinations.’
More to come.
