CAAMA News 17th August 2021

  • With growing concern in NSW about the spread of covid into regional Aboriginal communities and the current three day lockdown in Darwin and Katherine. Central Australian Aboriginal health agencies have also voiced their concerns.
  • New South Wales has recorded another 452 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and one death, with authorities remaining very concerned about the spread of the virus through Aboriginal communities in the state’s west.
  • Victoria has reported 24 new local COVID-19 cases as Melbourne woke up under stricter lock down measures on Tuesday.
  • Canberra’s lockdown was also extended for another two weeks as the ACT records another 19 COVID-19 cases.
  • No new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the NT, with almost 2000 tests conducted overnight all returning negative.