00:02More vaccines and a surge workforce are now on the way.
00:06But coming months after the first worrying signs of this outbreak emerged.
00:12With our territory government community controlled health services in Alice Springs in particular
00:18started lobbying the government way back in early April.
00:23The federal government's $7.2 million support package
00:27welcomed by Aboriginal community controlled medical groups.
00:30Anxious to see the roll out.
00:32The government's taken a number of weeks to respond
00:37but they have responded in a comprehensive way.
00:39They just do need to in future respond much more quickly than they have.
00:43The NT government defensive despite very little public messaging before now
00:48and nothing in Aboriginal languages.
00:51There has been press conference.
00:53The Chief Health Officer has communicated regularly with the media in the Northern Territory.
00:58The NT has recorded 157 cases of the disease including one suspected death.
01:04Mostly among First Nations people with the sharpest rise in the past month.
01:09I think it will still spread quite a bit.
01:13And this is to do with housing, poor housing, poor environmental health.
01:18No one is immune from this.
01:19We must make sure that we work as a country.
01:23I've gone and got my booster shot to make sure that we as adults,
01:28this isn't just about children, are responsible as well.
01:31Peak health bodies holding on to hope.
01:33I think we will contain it over the next few months.
01:36And hoping support arrives soon enough.
01:39Peak health bodies keeping theDear
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