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The community of Lajamanu, located around 500 kilometres southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory, has entered lockdown. Lajamanu and surrounding homelands were placed into a stay-at-home order immediately after COVID-19 wastewater testing came back positive.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner takes aim at "flogs outside the Territory" who he says are spreading conspiracy theories which are hindering vaccine uptake, as the NT records one new case of COVID-19.

Northern Territory authorities say the positive case of greatest concern at the moment is a woman who fled hard lockdown in the remote community of Binjari, hopped into a taxi with three others and entered Katherine.

The Northern Territory has recorded 11 new local cases of COVID-19 overnight, Chief Minister Michael Gunner says.

As the Northern Territory battles its first remote COVID-19 outbreak, authorities say the "vaccination surges" they are undertaking across communities that are under threat are the difference between life and death.

Military forces and police have been deployed to the remote communities of Binjari and Rockhole, with residents facing weeks confined to their homes amid a hard lockdown, the toughest actions deployed against the virus in the Northern Territory to date.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced changes to border rules on Saturday, prompted by the Territory's latest outbreak of the virus. "From Monday, we are requiring all arrivals to the Territory, no matter where you are coming from,

Travellers will need to be fully vaccinated before they can enter the Northern Territory under a new mandate to begin from Monday.

The Northern Territory will become the second jurisdiction in Australia to ban unvaccinated arrivals, with only limited exceptions, under sweeping changes to border rules announced by the Chief Minister.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says the territory has recorded one new COVID-19 case overnight. Mr Gunner said the two new cases were a 31-year-old Indigenous woman who is fully vaccinated.