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A supermarket has banned unvaccinated shoppers from entering its Northern Territory store, despite grocery shops counting as an essential service and therefore exempt from NT's Covid passport rules.
Popular supermarket chain IGA has announced only the vaccinated will be allowed to buy groceries from Yulara store, located inside the Ayers Rock resort.
The decision to refuse un-jabbed customers was backed by tourism operator Voyages, the Mutitjulu Community Aboriginal Corporation (MCAC), Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Northern Territory government.
Popular supermarket chain IGA has announced only the vaccinated will be allowed to buy groceries from Yulara store, located inside the Ayers Rock resort (pictured)
The NT on January 10 introduced a new vaccine pass system that now requires residents over the age of 16 to prove their vaccination status (pictured, a shopper in a supermarket)
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A Voyages company spokesperson said the ban had been introduced to protect the safety and wellbeing of their guests, staff and the local community.
MCAC chief executive Thalia Bohl-van den Boogaard has also defended the decision and said everyone in the
