Northern Territory

Delhi; 14 May 2021 (UMMN): Out of 150 Australians booked on evacuation flight from India, over 40 have been found Covid-19 positive, and another 30 deemed as close contacts. Northern Territory Health officials confirmed that these pasengers could no longer fly back home.

Australian government’s India travel ban expires at midnight on Friday and the flight was due to leave New Delhi on Friday night and arrive in Darwin on Saturday morning.

A "very destructive" category 4 cyclone slammed into Australia's remote northern coast on Saturday, while a second, equally powerful storm bore down on the country's west.

Cyclone Trevor, pushing a big storm tide and packing winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour (150 mph), made landfall on the sparsely populated Northern Territory coast near the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Port McArthur, the Bureau of Meteorology reported.