Coronavirus panic-buying threatens food security in remote NT community
ABCA remote NT community is facing the prospect of running out of food, a local Aboriginal group says, as panic-buying amid the coronavirus outbreak disrupts local supplies. Key points: The community of Gan Gan has around 130 people Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation said the town had less than a week's food left Gan Gan locals are concerned and say they are skipping meals Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation manages the only food store in the small community of Gan Gan about four hour's drive south of Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land. "People are coming in from remote communities unable to buy supplies they need because they can't bulk buy", she said. Taxi to town 'not an option' Mari Kuku, who has been the bush shop manager at Gan Gan for nearly two decades, said the community was "worried". The Gan Gan bush store Remote communities across NT 'anxious' Northern Land Council chief executive Marion Scrymgour told ABC radio Darwin that people in remote communities across the NT were "anxious" as food stocks ran low.
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