The Northern Territory Health Department has addressed concerns raised about the new medical director of the Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience.

Dr Di Stephens, the new medical director, received passengers on the India repatriation flights, drove them into the quarantine centre on a golf buggy and failed to stay 1.5m away. She then went to work at the In the Grass music festival in the medic tent the following week.

Dr Stephens was not available for comment. 

Following an investigation into the incident, the Northern Territory Health Department released a statement declaring Dr Stephens did not breach any infection control directives.