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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now is Kim Henderson,

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Speaker 1: who is the deputy mayor in Catherine.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Kim, Good morning Katie. How are you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really well, Kim. It sounds as though it is

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Speaker 1: incredibly busy this morning in Catherine with so many residents

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Speaker 1: turning out to get tested.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've seen the lines myself, and I am

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Speaker 2: so proud of the Catherine community getting out there and

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Speaker 2: getting tested. I know the wait is long and it

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Speaker 2: can be so frustrating, but it is pivotal to know

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Speaker 2: where this virus is in the community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you spot on. And we just caught up with

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Speaker 1: Joe Hersey who had said, you know that there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people waiting to get tested, that the feeling

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Speaker 1: in the community at the moment is quite unsettled, and

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of people quite worried about just

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen with this cluster.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there is a big concern, you know, understanding

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Speaker 2: where the case has been, where they've interacted with the community,

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Speaker 2: and we're still trying to find that information and the

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Speaker 2: community are a little bit anxious and waiting to know

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Speaker 2: have they been to an exposure site? Have I you know,

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Speaker 2: am I a close contact. So I'm just very yeah,

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Speaker 2: very happy that the community is doing the right thing

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Speaker 2: and staying home, and as soon as I have the

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Speaker 2: mildest the symptoms, they are going out to get tested.

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Speaker 1: Now, Kim, one of those exposure sites that's listed on

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Speaker 1: several different occasions on the coronavirus website is the Catherine Hospital.

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Speaker 1: How big a worry is that for you?

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Speaker 2: I's always a concern when a public facility as public

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Speaker 2: as the Catherine Hospital is listed as an exposure site.

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Speaker 2: But I have all faith in the staff at the

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Speaker 2: Captain Hospital. I know they have their processes in order

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Speaker 2: and they would have had that place deep cleaned within

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Speaker 2: an inch of its life. And I know that the

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Speaker 2: community are safe to be access to the hospital if

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Speaker 2: you require it.

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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, are there warries given the fact that that

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Speaker 1: they're you know, they are listed as an exposure site

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Speaker 1: and presumably some of the staff have been close contacts.

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Speaker 1: Is there any concern from your perspective that you know,

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Speaker 1: they may be staff down or that there may not

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Speaker 1: be as much capacity or redundancy is what they'd like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's a concern across the community, not

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Speaker 2: just at the hospital. With low staffing. We already had

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Speaker 2: that issue with the lockdowns of interstate and international. You know,

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Speaker 2: we don't have those backpackers here that we would normally have,

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Speaker 2: so there is a lot of staff shortages across the community,

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Speaker 2: let alone without a lockdown as well. So we're definitely

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Speaker 2: feeling the pinch. But you know, the staff that have

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Speaker 2: gone and gotten tested and had their negative tests and

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Speaker 2: just gotten back to work to support the community, it's

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Speaker 2: just incredible to see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and is there that contingency I suppose in place

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Speaker 1: within the hospital or has there been any discussion about

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Speaker 1: if required, if there are further cases, if there will

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Speaker 1: be capacity to get staff to Catherine from Darwin, or

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Speaker 1: any of those kind of discussions at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely those those discussions that happening at all levels

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Speaker 2: of government at the moment. So we've been talking with

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Speaker 2: Darwin about opening a second testing facility in Kathrine East,

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Speaker 2: but we all knew that we didn't have enough staff

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Speaker 2: here to staff that. So we do have to reach

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Speaker 2: out to our counterparts in Darwen and say, you know,

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Speaker 2: we need this support for the community to get over

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Speaker 2: this outbreak, and to do that, we do need to

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Speaker 2: be prepped people from other towns such as Darwin. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: those conversations are definitely happening.

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Speaker 1: And in terms of you know that additional testing capacity,

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Speaker 1: is any of that moving forward. I know that Joe

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Speaker 1: Hersey had said that she was understanding that there was

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Speaker 1: going to be twelve people coming from Darwin to help

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Speaker 1: out with some testing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am not aware of how many staff are coming,

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Speaker 2: but I did get the notice this morning that the

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Speaker 2: third testing site should be opening as soon as they can,

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Speaker 2: and that will be out at Catherine East for those

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Speaker 2: that can't travel into town because both of the other

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Speaker 2: testing sites are in the CBD at the hospital and

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Speaker 2: in the center of town, so it's to kind of

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Speaker 2: support those that are further out of town.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kim, it does sound like it is all happening

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Speaker 1: in Catherine at the moment. Well done to everybody that's

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Speaker 1: turned out to get tested, and you know we're all

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Speaker 1: thinking of you here in Darwin and hoping that things

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Speaker 1: stay under control.

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Speaker 2: No worries. Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Keith