NT records 100th coronavirus case — a total that remains a national low

The Northern Territory has recorded its 100th coronavirus case, a number that remains the lowest in the nation since the disease was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019.

Coronavirus first reached the Northern Territory in February 2020 when four evacuees from the disease-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, who had been flown to Darwin’s then makeshift quarantine facility at Howard Springs, tested positive.

Since those early days of the pandemic, the Northern Territory community has lived through acute fear that an outbreak of the…