Northern Territory COVID-19 updates

Page last updated 13 February 2023

This page will be updated with the latest information as it becomes available for GPs in the Northern Territory. 

The information on this page was last updated: Monday 23 March 2020, 1.30 pm ACDT.

You can also find nationally relevant information via the RACGP Coronavirus (COVID19) information for GPs webpage.


For up-to-the-minute information, visit the Australian Federal Government Department of Health website and subscribe to receive the bi-weekly COVID-19 newsletter for GPs from the Chief Medical Officer


  • If based in Darwin and there is a need to arrange testing, please call the Public Health Unit - 8922 8044
  • There is a dedicated COVID-19 hotline number for the NT for people who need to arrange testing only - 1800 008 002


Access the latest updates from NT Health.

  • NT remote communities have been closed to all non-essential travel in response to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
  • The Tiwi Land Council has directed any person who is NOT a resident of the Tiwi Islands is not permitted to enter the Tiwi Islands, and subsequently evoked all non-essential permits. No new non-essential permits will be granted.
  • There is a dedicated COVID-19 remote community travel hotline for the NT – 1800 518 189.


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Public Health Unit – Disease control contacts are available via the NT Health website.

PHN

Phone

Email

Website

Northern Territory

(08) 8982 1000

ntphn@ntphn.org.au

http://www.ntphn.org.au


COVID-19 clinics have been established at Royal Darwin Hospital and Katherine District hospital.


RACGP SA&NT

Phone: (08) 8267 8310   

Email: sant.faculty@racgp.org.au

Join the RACGP SA&NT Facebook group to chat with your colleagues and stay up to date

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