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Key points:

• Health Minister Greg Hunt says the Howard Springs quarantine facility will reach full capacity for international arrivals this month
• Dozens of repatriation flights are scheduled to touch down in Darwin in August
• NT Health says it's confident the facility will be able to cope with the demand

The ABC understands the Howard Springs quarantine facility in the Northern Territory is set to reach full capacity for international arrivals for the first time, as the number of repatriation flights surges this month.
Key points:

Health Minister Greg Hunt says the Howard Springs quarantine facility will reach full capacity for international arrivals this month. Dozens of repatriation flights are scheduled to touch down in Darwin in August. NT Health says it's confident the facility will be able to cope with the demand.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has told Parliament the facility would reach capacity for repatriated Australians in the coming weeks. "The 2,000 capacity [limit] will be reached in Howard Springs on the 13, 22 and 31 August," he said. Earlier this year, quarantine capacity at the centre was expanded from 850 people a fortnight to 2,000, under an agreement between the Commonwealth and the NT government.
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More than 11,000 international arrivals have undertaken quarantine at the facility since repatriation flights to the NT began in October last year.
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In July, National Cabinet agreed to halve the number of international arrivals on commercial flights allowed into Australia to 3,035 people a week, in response to the more infectious Delta variant.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said instead the Commonwealth would increase the number of repatriation flights into the Howard Springs facility. That plan is now in action, with 18 government-facilitated flights scheduled this month. Among them are flights from New Delhi, London, Denpasar, Frankfurt and Johannesburg. This week, a London repatriation flight with about 180 people onboard touched down in Darwin, as well as more than 100 Australian Olympic team members who arrived on a charter flight from Tokyo, before being bussed to Howard Springs. They were among the first international arrivals to be screened in a newly constructed COVID-safe area of Darwin International Airport (DIA), which would enable up to 600 more passengers to be processed a fortnight. Another flight carrying about 80 Olympians is due to land at DIA next Monday.
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