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The Northern Territory has detected one new COVID-19 infection after an infant from an Aboriginal community was diagnosed with the virus.
Two flight crew quarantined at The Centre for National Resilience in Howard Springs after arriving on a Qantas flight from London have also tested positive.
Genomic sequencing is underway to determine whether they have the Omicron variant of the virus.
An baby boy has tested positive for Covid in Binjari bringing the current outbreak (pictured) to 59 cases
The infant from Binjari, 330km south of Darwin, is also in the Howard Springs quarantine facility.
The case brings the current cluster of cases to 59, as wastewater testing reveals more virus traces in Katherine, 320km south of Darwin.
The town's double-dose vaccination rate reached 81 per cent on Wednesday but Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the existing lockout would continue while the positive results were investigated.
The baby was in the same quarantine facility three teenagers escaped from on Wednesday
A lockout in Robinson River, 1000km southeast of Darwin, will end at 6pm local time after several rounds of testing returned
