Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet
The Chief Health Officer has declared Greater Metropolitan Sydney, the Local Government Areas of Central Coast Council and City of Blue Mountains, and the Illawarra Region of New South Wales as COVID-19 Hotspots for the purposes of travel to the Northern Territory from 3pm on 20 December 2020.
This follows on from an outbreak that has occurred in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and has grown to include 64 positive COVID-19 cases.
Anyone travelling to the Northern Territory who has been in a COVID-19 Hotspot in the 14 days prior to their arrival must undertake 14 days of mandatory, supervised quarantine at the Alice Springs or Howard Springs quarantine facilities at a cost of $2,500 per person.