The Department of Immigration and Border Protection confirmed that 41 asylum seekers detained on Nauru had contracted dengue fever by the end of March. There is currently a general outbreak of the viral disease on Nauru, and the number of asylum seekers affected is likely to have risen during April. The immigration department deemed this an issue for the Nauruan government and has not commented on strategies put in place to deal with it.
The federal government agreed to compensate a nine-year-old girl who was detained on Christmas Island for almost a year for a range of medical and psychological issues developed as a result of her detention. Her case was originally part of a class action aimed at securing compensation for thousands of refugees, but this was halted by the Supreme Court last month on the basis that the individual claims were too different.