‘Catastrophic failure’: Covid out of control in the NT, say Aboriginal groups

A letter sent by three major Indigenous groups to the NT chief minister has called this 'our last chance to flatten the curve of new infections and hospitalisations’. Photograph: Katherine Morrow/AAP

Covid is “out of control” in central Australia, representing a “catastrophic failure” by the Northern Territory government to carry out its own emergency plans, according to the three biggest Aboriginal organisations in the NT.

The groups have accused the NT government of failing to adequately carry out emergency plans that had been made “well in advance” of the current outbreak.