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Australian Territory to Close Controversial COVID-19 Quarantine Camp and End Vaccine Mandates

One of Australia’s most controversial COVID-19 quarantine camps, Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience, will be closed by authorities, along with other vaccination and testing centres. The Northern Territory government revealed that it would not be renewing the public health emergency order set to end on June 16, bringing an end to the territories vaccine mandates and…


Northern Territory’s Howard Springs Quarantine Absconders Apprehended

Two teenagers who absconded from the Northern Territory’s Howard Springs COVID-19 quarantine facility on Sunday afternoon were caught just a few hours later. According to an NT Police media release, the two 16-year-old girls, both from Katherine, were almost at the end of their quarantine period and had tested negative to COVID-19 on their most…


Australian Police Still Hunting Man Who Escaped Quarantine in Alice Springs

Northern Territory (NT) police are still searching for a man who fled from the Alice Springs Quarantine Facility on Dec. 1. At a press conference on Tuesday, NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said that the absconder, 27-year-old Jeremy MacDonald,  is “known to police, and there’s some other activities underway that we believe is incentivising him…


Three Territorians Contract COVID-19 in Howard Springs Quarantine Facility

Four new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Australia’s Northern Territory over the weekend, three of whom caught the virus while in quarantine at the Howard Springs facility on the outskirts of Darwin. Chief Minister Michael Gunner said via a Facebook post on Sunday that all three cases, a man in his forties from Katherine,…


3 Territorians Contract COVID-19 in Howard Springs Quarantine Facility

Four new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Australia’s Northern Territory over the weekend, three of whom caught the virus while in quarantine at the Howard Springs facility on the outskirts of Darwin. Chief Minister Michael Gunner said via a Facebook post on Sunday that all three cases, a man in his forties from Katherine,…


Dedicated Aussie Quarantine Facility at Howard Springs to Increase Capacity

The Howard Springs CCP virus quarantine facility near Darwin in the Northern Territory was given the green light to increase capacity at Friday’s national cabinet meeting of Australian premiers, chief ministers, and the prime minister. The decision was made to expand the facility to be able to process 2,000 people per fortnight, up from 850,…