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Woman tests positive for coronavirus at Howard Springs quarantine facility

All cases of COVID-19 are connected to overseas or interstate travel.

A 52-year-old woman has tested positive for coronavirus at the Howard Springs quarantine facility after returning on a repatriation flight from India last week.

The Northern Territory Government said she recorded the positive test in the last 48 hours.

Last Friday three cases of coronavirus — a four-year-old girl, a 39-year-old woman and a 58-year-old woman who had also returned from India — were recorded in the facility.

Twenty cases of coronavirus have been recorded among returned travellers since the repatriation flights began on October 23.

The total number of cases diagnosed in the Northern Territory to date is 54.

All of them have been related to international or interstate travel, with no cases of community transmission.

More than 1,300 international arrivals have been quarantined at the Howard Springs facility.

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