The Northern Territory's peak Aboriginal health body criticises national cabinet's decision to scrap mandatory COVID isolation rules, while local hospitality businesses welcome it.
of the NT's population, yet they have comprised the vast majority of COVID patients in Territory hospitals.
"With the [COVID] numbers slowly declining here in the Northern Territory, it's giving our clinicians an opportunity to start to address those patients with other chronic illnesses," he said. "As with any infectious illness, it remains important that all Territorians stay home if feeling sick or experiencing COVID symptoms, so that they don't pass on their illness to others," he said in a statement.
John Dujmovic, manager at Fiddlers Green Irish Pub in Darwin, said dropping isolation rules for people who test positive to COVID was "the best thing that's ever happened".
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