Originally Posted by nancypants

FIFO miner at the granites gold mine has tested positive for Covid-19. In an interesting commentary on Australia-wide idiosyncrasies in Covid policy, he came from Bendigo to Brisbane (where he had to stay in a quarantine hotel overnight as qld had regional Victoria as a hotspot), was able to fly unrestricted to NT (as regional Victoria was not a hotspot). Appears he became infected with the delta variant during that 1 night stay in Brisbane quarantine. Notified by NSW health that the hotel was now considered a hotspot, but not considered so by Qld or NT. Isolated and tested and came up positive
900 contacts identified
rumours of a 3 day NT wide lockdown (possible), or reimplementation of biosecurity zones (less likely)