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It's tops-off in the Top End as locals in Darwin bask in their Covid lockdown.
While much of the country shivers through a wet and miserable pandemic pause to normal life, the Northern Territory is refusing to let the lockdown get them down.
Locals have been spotted strolling through the streets of Darwin in bikinis and bathers - while still keeping safely masked up.
And flashing the flesh in the snap shutdown seems to be paying off, with the territory set to re-open when the current lockdown order ends on Friday.
Tops-off in the Top End as locals in Darwin bask in their Covid lockdown (pictured)
While much of the country shivers through a wet and miserable pandemic pause to normal life, the Northern Territory is refusing to let the lockdown get them down (pictured)
Darwin reported no new cases or exposure sites on Wednesday after intense efforts by contact tracers to track down all possible contacts of infected cases.
'We still want to see some results back but having no new exposure sites puts us on a very good footing for 1pm on Friday,” predicted NT chief minister Michael Gunner on Wednesday.
'So far the results are on track for where we would like to be for a 1pm lifting.'
NT looked to be on the verge of a major outbreak when it was hit by six local cases linked to a fly-in fly-out worker at the Tanami Desert gold mine.
Locals have been spotted strolling through the streets of Darwin in bikinis and bathers while stil staying safely masked up (pictured)
Darwin reported no new cases or exposure sites on Wednesday after intense efforts by contact tracers to track down
