{"id":1077089,"date":"2021-12-02T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077089"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:14:23","slug":"three-teenagers-who-tested-negative-for-covid-arrested-in-australia-for-leaving-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-teenagers-who-tested-negative-for-covid-arrested-in-australia-for-leaving-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Teenagers Who Tested Negative For COVID Arrested In Australia For Leaving Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthree-teenagers-who-tested-negative-for-covid-arrested-in-australia-for-leaving-quarantine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077089&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Three teenagers were arrested in Australia after climbing a fence to escape a COVID-19 quarantine compound in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The teens \u2013 aged 15, 16, and 17 \u2013 had all tested negative for COVID-19 but were being quarantined because they were close contacts of people who had tested positive. They were being held in a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Howard Springs, just outside Northern Territory capital city Darwin, Australia news outlet ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-12-01\/multiple-people-escape-howard-springs-quarantine-facility-darwin\/100663994\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Thursday, local time, NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said the teens were found just outside Palmerston and had been arrested after police chased them on foot. At the time, NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the teens had not had any contact with members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health risk to the community was very low, so that does give cause for comfort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facility is&nbsp;housing people affected by the&nbsp; Katherine region COVID-19 outbreak as well as returned travellers from repatriation flights, including a man who tested positive for the Omicron variant on Monday,\u201d ABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Gunner said that local authorities were trying to handle \u201ca pretty complicated cohort at the Centre for National Resilience right now, with complex needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [is] the first time we\u2019ve had to use the centre for large numbers of people from an Aboriginal community, but it probably won\u2019t be the last time,\u201d&nbsp;he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gunner also said that isolation and quarantine has been \u201cpretty hard for some people \u2026 used to being close to family and community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As ABC reported, hundreds of households and their close contacts have been sent to the facility in Darwin to quarantine. Gunner said that the teens who escaped would now likely be held longer in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsconding from Howard Springs isn\u2019t just dangerous \u2014 it&nbsp;is incredibly stupid,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we will catch you and there will be consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days before the teens escaped quarantine, a 27-year-old man also escaped by climbing a fence. He also tested negative for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the escapes, Chalker said the facility would implement more surveillance cameras and that people who attempted to flee would be fined thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The escapes in Australia come after a couple who visited South Africa left quarantine in the Netherlands and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-begins-couple-who-visited-south-africa-arrested-after-leaving-quarantine-hotel-and-trying-to-leave-netherlands\">were arrested<\/a> trying to leave the country. Media reports the quarantine was voluntary, yet the couple was arrested after leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch outlet Het Parool reported that the couple was among 61 people who were being quarantined in the hotel after returning from South Africa and testing positive for COVID. So far, 13 of the 61 cases have been identified as the Omicron variant, which was recently discovered and is being used by governments across the world to propose new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not known which variant the couple tested positive for, or whether they were on the same flight back to Amsterdam as any of the 13 people who tested positive for the Omicron variant,\u201d Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dutch-police-detain-couple-fled-quarantine-hotel-after-south-africa-2021-11\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe couple were able to leave their quarantine hotel with ease, as occupancy is voluntary and not legally enforced in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp;Join us in this fight by <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/donotcomply\">signing our petition<\/a> to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three teenagers were arrested in Australia after climbing a fence to escape a COVID-19 quarantine compound in the middle of the night.The teens \u2013 aged 15, 16, and 17 \u2013 had all tested negative for COVID-19 but were being quarantined because they were close contacts of people who had tested positive. They were being held in a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Howard Springs, just outside Northern Territory capital city Darwin, Australia news outlet ABC reported.At a press conference on Thursday, local time, NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said the teens were found just outside Palmerston and had been arrested after police chased them on foot. At the time, NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the teens had not had any contact with members of the community.\u201cThe health risk to the community was very low, so that does give cause for comfort,\u201d he said.\u201cThe facility is\u00a0housing people affected by the\u00a0 Katherine region COVID-19 outbreak as well as returned travellers from repatriation flights, including a man who tested positive for the Omicron variant on Monday,\u201d ABC reported.Gunner said that local authorities were trying to handle \u201ca pretty complicated cohort at the Centre for National Resilience right now, with complex needs.\u201d\u201cThis [is] the first time we\u2019ve had to use the centre for large numbers of people from an Aboriginal community, but it probably won\u2019t be the last time,\u201d\u00a0he added.Gunner also said that isolation and quarantine has been \u201cpretty hard for some people \u2026 used to being close to family and community.\u201dAs ABC reported, hundreds of households and their close contacts have been sent to the facility in Darwin to quarantine. Gunner said that the teens who escaped would now likely be held longer in quarantine.\u201cAbsconding from Howard Springs isn\u2019t just dangerous \u2014 it\u00a0is incredibly stupid,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we will catch you and there will be consequences.\u201dDays before the teens escaped quarantine, a 27-year-old man also escaped by climbing a fence. He also tested negative for COVID-19.Due to the escapes, Chalker said the facility would implement more surveillance cameras and that people who attempted to flee would be fined thousands of dollars.The escapes in Australia come after a couple who visited South Africa left quarantine in the Netherlands and were arrested trying to leave the country. Media reports the quarantine was voluntary, yet the couple was arrested after leaving.Dutch outlet Het Parool reported that the couple was among 61 people who were being quarantined in the hotel after returning from South Africa and testing positive for COVID. So far, 13 of the 61 cases have been identified as the Omicron variant, which was recently discovered and is being used by governments across the world to propose new restrictions.\u201cIt is not known which variant the couple tested positive for, or whether they were on the same flight back to Amsterdam as any of the 13 people who tested positive for the Omicron variant,\u201d Business Insider reported. \u201cThe couple were able to leave their quarantine hotel with ease, as occupancy is voluntary and not legally enforced in the Netherlands.\u201dThe Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.\u00a0Join us in this fight by signing our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}