The Northern Territory has recorded a new Covid-19 case after a man travelled from NSW to Darwin and tested positive.
Dozens of close contacts have been identified as Health Minister Natasha Fyles prepares to front the media amid fears the city will go into lockdown.
The fully-vaccinated 53-year-old travelled to Darwin International Airport from Newcastle via Brisbane on Friday on Jetstar flight JQ674.
He since tested positive for Covid-19, is asymptomatic and is now at the Centre for National Resilience in Howard Springs, near Darwin, NT Health said on Monday.
The fully-vaccinated 53-year-old travelled to Darwin International Airport from Newcastle via Brisbane on Friday on Jetstar flight JQ674 (Pictured: Darwin residents)
Contact tracing is underway, with 24 close contacts identified.
All have been contacted and ordered to undertake 14 days mandatory quarantine.
This includes two border entry staff and two Australian Defence Force members, who have also been deemed to be close contacts and ordered into quarantine.
The remaining 111 people on the flight from Queensland have been identified as casual contacts and ordered to self-isolate and get tested for the virus.
Queenland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said the man transited through Brisbane while travelling from Newcastle to the Northern Territory on Friday night.
The man, who was fully vaccinated, was on a 'red' flight from NSW, so anyone ending their journey in Brisbane would have gone into hotel quarantine.
Ms D'Ath says he arrived at the airport on Jetstar flight JQ484 at 5.10pm, before boarding another flight to the NT about four hours later.
'We're just wanting to make sure that that person, in the four hours that they were at the domestic airport, did not move around very far, and whether they went to any food
