Say thanks for coming Natasha Files, Northern Chief Minister and with me I have Vicki across the director for Senate for Disease Control. I'll give an opening statement and then Vicky will respond clinical questions and I'm available to answer any other questions is everyone ready so the Northern territory today, two more confirmed Harris these are two territories that were at cruise ship that had left New Zealand doctor in Sydney when they did the ship there wasn't of Corona virus and these people were transiting home. As we've seen many Australians and territorial people are trying to Australia and various sports, whether it's buying as people introduce they were picked up as a stand by a family member and we're so far selecting a home upon feeling unwell. They reached endemic clinic and arrangements were made for them to be and those tests have to do for the Corona bar. they have been want to assure the Northern territory and the community here in this have followed all the precaution advice as I said they had been driven by a close family member and Been isolating at home, so the recommendation is reload four cases of the Corona virus imagery, but what I can is our systems that are coming back to the territory and isolating and then feeling I have not been our community at isolating at home, they've seen additional measures, police announced the chief Minister just a couple of hours that will further tech Territorians. So that is the update here today. These two people have returned a positive test for Toronto. We presently have been admitted to world have five people in world. Virus That is the gentleman from New South Wales diagnosed at a couple of weeks ago, and then the two cases from yes, and these two additional cases were admitted earlier today on receiving the positive diet which brings facility on Monday to people who are coming back positive to the virus, they weren't will be admitted to World Down hospital. I'll make sure we preserve that clinical voice for people that need to be in here. so we're happy to take any questions you may have and that's the latest update from a health perspective in the North underneath from the play. With some having yet so the plane the the three flights that have come in to Darwin all on the ninth of March the the slight flight numbers are on the website. That is those numbers are the people on the plane can see those and those planes that are in the snows two rows of a front of the two beds are called in the process of all being sorry. There's a flight from a flight for a fund of flight cases and all three life or their case yesterday, as well. Yes, so you have a case two case today one that came in the US all the way up to Darwin. We have a case this morning of a couple of things from Sydney had another case who came from Brisbane. Sorry, this couple is from Darlene from somewhere else the cook from Dog. Immediately went into self as soon as I run of the forecast have occurred over the past two yesterday a day I've only football outside of the two have been so that people were arrested in knowing that they had to be quieting. The quieting of really, very, very little contact to the public that are already some showing symptoms yet that are beer symptoms so all of our in Darwin World Hospital. This is a very good step to keep them in grunting or they all have had more moderate symptoms given we only had one case up until we suddenly now got five. You concern that the number of cases in the intimate soon balloon out into more. of course, we know that we are going more we've had a bit of a stuck because we are some distant eastern Coast with the first cases were, but we do expect cases. That's a lot of their most pieces are because we're not following quarantine rules the real walls that Australia for isolate for fourth and yet we have peeping in an era. And also on chips and then hoping on domestic flights where they like in Australia and that's what's caused this most recent cases, it's really important tonight. These we have done the right thing lines when we enacted that any running from a path to self fight for fourteens, but they were allowed to train at home. We didn't wanna have a situation we had people are in hotel room, perhaps engaging more with it because they were to leave out of a suitcase, potentially these people were allowed to try at home. so we source of the gentleman who'd returned via Denver and the woman. He had returned from a marathon Brisbane, Apple had come off a ship but went home they flew home and once they got to the Northern territory they had isolated themselves and that was with immediate friends who were caring for them. So these have been followed and the risk to our community has cause of that. so that were followed cases in the Northern territory, but if follow the rules and improve our broader community will be minimum, we have we heard earlier from the police Commissioner and the people have made calls to the police, saying where people who are not. A lightning hit the message getting out there to territorial doesn't previously that they need to be sitting if they're told to do so the messy year out with a health professional, saying, please don't port a community at risk these mechanisms in place to provide support. I think it's amazing through social media. the community has out to anyone that might be in isolation, something put in place that to get that to the we call on the community and public to do the right thing to do that we will get through. We will get this with a slower rate in our community and we will get through. So it's important that people follow them and we've seen it on Tuesday become retry, but President returned you must expect you are final distance. Reals need to change because a lot of the new infections are being by these internal transits ultimate response and then Vicki's worked bright additional deal. what we mean is we've seen these people who have risen upon home have become symptom of that test and then found that they've got virus the Senate control is working through those close contacts, but anyone if you are not feeling isolate yourself from our community and phone through get advice that you should tested for the Corona virus we are blue. here in the top-end presently not everything will be there are processes in place our community that anything I just want to say that is that we've had our overseas so they've overseas stations at this time the Cup restrictions that will be in the are looking at the fact that in more cases East Coast cities and and it's missing that risk the transit at the moment in every person on domestic for risk if they if they were served by the same and not do. Played moves I mean, are we risking everybody travels on domestic flights by just letting people arrive from overseas library. If you like this is based on evidence, clinicians briefing ACDC making these decisions and bring National Cabinet around them, but we always were being practical. We don't wanna see lots of people caught a landing in Brisbane or Sydney for it and then being stuck there and as I potentially trying to live out of a suitcase and putting the community other what we need to protect the Northern territory that community transmission and people are going elation. Overseas Tuesday afternoon traffic into state that will we've seen in Chief health officer here in the territory this afternoon we are seeing in New South Wales Queensland. We're seeing community transmission. we're not seeing that yet territory. That's what we want by one who feels on wealth from your community and if the criteria and it's very easy to find that information out pandemic clinic to see we have stuff shipped talking here from Tuesday from entering into water cruise ships that left days and they were out at Sea when these engineer border force. Managing them that docking here, but those pages are transiting through down so they're getting off the ship and they are spending minimal gear and getting themselves home. We have practical about this stuff. What we mean, just a couple of weeks ago. I don't think any of us imagined so about situations where people are. we can't leave them sit ups at Sea. We need to be proud of, but those steps into tech the broader and this lines if a plane lands in Australia, those people can transit through and then isolate is it pointing that these people. Off the cruise ship without all that been done before him so that I've got is that child there was no Corona virus cases are on that ship they had been as someone else might have been on a worth coming into Sydney the ship and they were transiting, Obviously some of the other tubs passengers off that same ship virus cases. What you just said I mean shoot there have been precaution should they actually have helped herself isolate for 14 four. They went anywhere that ship staying in days, so the advice that I've received. Participant there was not Corona boxes on that vessel. His people are saying that I've just explained coming in on a flight, we're disembarking and they transformed to their home territories and it's since that we start disembark moment of that that we've noticed current of ours, even though any Corona virus cases only now learned that two pink didn't test positive stricter measures implant, which into Cape a crew docked just bread given that unprecedented moment with the right that it is spreading so at the time that that they know. Passengers disc in my transition, I think that clinical professionals additional level only looking at can we protect the Australian and it also need to be proud this to get people and we're certainly seeing people return back to return to the territory out travel plans could have been perhaps living in returned home, but all slow I'm aware of those changes. I made their way home and focus on students mission but your entry and that's why you've seen the announced by the Chief Minister today and that if anyone who is feeling unwell by site at. It seems on one hand or tightening measures you know what the border telling people today for 14 days clean yet on the other homes, or allowing people to transit around the place, you know what's the point of pulling the border more tight? if we're just gonna allow people to train an order of airport with I think I can own spine as I have, you have to be practical about this, but many Australians we've got men territories when caught up in this parents are anxious family me to get them home. We don't want to be impractical people stuck in potential. Foreign ports or stuck into stuck into state at what we have on his put in place measures and this is this is the National clinically and that have these calls that we should these are the guns and they certainly listed as week tomorrow measures that the community, but also when will they have springs for be ready to start? so the advice that I'm out this morning and the up on Monday, as I previously did he has been seen its previously for those decisions on those that we would want to utilize that facility those clinics. This will be a marathon nation's legit. Will be at this for many many months, but we will be standing that facility up on so that we can not have everything to get it roll down hospital How many extra stuff being able to bring in you were talking about bringing desk jobs etcetera. They're stretched each Palmerston this new facility. Three people have you got to come and vote. I don't have those specific numbers, but what I mean, for example, people are nurses have carols man. The phones for the pandemic clinic be a shift people will step on administrative positions, but other. Clinical areas such as outpaced, we have said that we will been so that we can manage a virus pandemic in the Northern territory so we will continue to shift resources. There's been conversations that an intergovernmental around if health more resources, where can we get resources from within government territories can be resolved that the resources to our hardworking at health staff will be added and we are managing looking at it aspects that it will be many months that we will be dealing with this. alright. Thank you.