The pandemic has reached another remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community, with a COVID-19 infection detected in Lajamanu.
The new case is a 45-year-old fully-vaccinated man, bringing the current cluster to 60 cases.
"This isn't the best news," Health Minister Natasha Fyles told reporters on Thursday.
"We were hoping there was no cases in Lajamanu".
The community of about 600 people - around 900km northwest of Alice Springs - was locked down on November 27 after the virus was detected in wastewater sampling.
It was relaxed to a lockout on Wednesday after days of testing failed to find any cases.
The man and 13 close contacts will be transferred 900km north to The Centre of National Resilience quarantine facility, near Darwin.
The outbreak started when an infected woman illegally entered the NT in late October.
The 21-year-old lied on her border entry form before travelling from Cairns to Darwin after visiting Victoria, where she contracted the virus.
She infected a man in Darwin before the virus spread to Katherine, then the Aboriginal communities of Robinson River and Binjari, and now Lajamanu.
Ms Fyles said the man's viral load was low, which could mean he had recently acquired the virus or was recovering from the infection.
"It is concerning that we have a positive case in a remote NT community," she said.
"But, we very much feel we have the situation under control."
Meanwhile, testing in Binjari, 330km south of Darwin, has returned negative results and the community's hard lockdown has been eased to a normal lock down.
