Dedicated Aussie Quarantine Facility at Howard Springs to Increase Capacity The Howard Springs CCP virus quarantine facility near Darwin in the Northern Territory was given the green light to increase capacity at Friday’s national cabinet meeting of Australian premiers, chief ministers, and the prime minister. The decision was made to expand the facility to be able to process 2,000 people per fortnight, up from 850, over the next few months. It will allow for more international arrivals and help repatriate stranded Australians stuck overseas amid the pandemic. “That will be done over the next few months, and that is an important addition to the capacity of those quarantine facilities, to receive those return chartered flights that Australia has been putting in place for many, many months,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters after the meeting.