Katherine West Health Board CEO Sinon Cooney said the organisation had been providing vaccination data relating to each of the eight communities it services to NT Health "basically since we started vaccinating for COVID."

"The assertion that the ACCHOs are not providing data is just not true," Mr Cooney said.

"We're doing the best we can do in the circumstances."

Mr Cooney said he wasn't privy to how the data provided was then distributed within the NT Government.

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"It's important to note that we aren't being belligerent and withholding our data, we have been providing it consistently week on week," he said.

The comments come following a fiery outburst from Mr Gunner at a press conference on Tuesday where he said he still didn't have access to vaccination rates of individual remote communities which are services by ACCHOs.

"I really want individual community vaccination rates for the 29 ACCHO communities, we've asked politely...So as a result, we're now recording them as a zero per cent vaccination. And we're applying all our public health measures to those remote communities," he said.

"I would like to do everything I can to save a bloody life and it's about bloody time they gave us that vaccine data."

Mr Gunner also flagged a number of new measures aimed at protecting NT remote communities from COVID-19 including mandatory mask-wearing for anyone who travels to remote communities with low vaccination rates from Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine.

Visitors will also need to produce a negative rapid antigen test result within 72 hours of arrival.

Mr Cooney said while he supported those measures in theory, they would be difficult to enforce.

"In essence it seems reasonable, in practice there's going to be some challenges to overcome...[especially] managing it for clients who go into town and return home," he said.

"It's really early days and it's quite a fresh announcement.

"It remains to be seen how we'll administer that work."

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