Updated.
February 07, 2020 16: 29:22
A second plane load of Australian coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan will be quarantined at an unused mining camp near Darwin.
Bottom line:
- Australian evacuees from Wuhan will be quarantined at an obsolete Inpex employees village on Darwin’s borders
- The village once housed 3,500 workers used on the building of a multi-million dollar gas plant
- NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner states he has actually been assured there will be no risk to the public
” The primary health officer has complete confidence that the Darwin community will not be impacted by this cohort being quarantined at the Manigurr-ma accommodation town at Howard Springs,” the statement checks out.
The village was as soon as house to 3,500 workers