A worker in a Northern Territory gold mine has tested positive for coronavirus, sending hundreds of employees into isolation and concern over 900 other workers who have already left the site, health officials have confirmed.
The worker, who is understood to have caught the virus at a quarantine hotel in Brisbane, is employed at the Newmont-owned Granites gold mine in the Tanami Desert, around 540 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the worker was potentially infectious from 18 June to 24 June.
Around 900 workers have already left the mine and been sent text messages to get tested and isolate, Mr Gunner said.
"We are confident we know all of the people who have moved in and out of the mine site.
"We are asking all 900 to identify where they are isolating, where they have travelled to another jurisdiction, we will advise that jurisdiction."
The worker went to Brisbane from Bendigo on June 7, and quarantined there under Queensland's rules for Victorian arrivals.
To this point, the Northern Territory has never had a case of community transmission of coronavirus.
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