"Rockhole is about 13 kilometres from Katherine township along the Katherine River," he said.
"It's a quiet place, it's a wonderful place.
"We have families, kids running around — more kids than adults."
The Aboriginal community of around 130 people is now in a hard lockdown after nine COVID-19 cases were discovered in neighbouring Binjari, just on the other side of the river.
No-one in either community is allowed to leave their homes or their yards.
The outbreak now stands at 35, with three people in hospital.
Authorities are preparing to find "a lot" more cases in Binjari and Rockhole and say the harsh restrictions are necessary because the threat to lives is "extreme".
At the time Mr Rogers spoke to ABC on the weekend, the case numbers were not known, but he was already very worried.
Two of his family members had been taken to Howard Springs as close contacts of a positive COVID-19 case.
Mr Rogers loves his community, but the housing is not good.
His neighbours refer to his place as "the one with the broken fence".
His house has three bedrooms, but he said at least eight people were living there.
Most of them sleep on the floor in the living room.
"Grandchildren, granddaughters, they all stay in my house," he said.
"You know, all these houses were all built back in 1982, sometime like that.
"There are only three bedrooms and big mob of people live together. We don't know who to talk to now about getting a new house, a big house, houses with four or five rooms you know."
Kevin Rogers is 63 and undergoes dialysis three times a week.
He has been watching the news about the outbreak on the television at the clinic.
"Every time I go back on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and it's always talking about new cases in the Northern Territory," he said.
"We have heard so many times overseas that many thousands of people, probably millions of people, lost their lives and now it's nearly close to communities right here, we need to educate, especially our young people, of what COVID-19 is."
He is worried the message is not getting through.
"It's very hard for them families to understand," he said.
"They just live every day like nothing ever happened.
"I tell them, it's really a serious matter, we should take care of ourselves and our children."
Mr Rogers is double-vaccinated but he does not think many people in Rockhole are.
The local Aboriginal health provider Wurli-Wurlinjang said the vaccination rate in Rockhole was "lower than Binjari," which was at 38 per cent, but a number of doses delivered over the past few days would have improved the rates in both communities.
Mr Rogers knows some of his family are not vaccinated.
On Saturday he said he was considering kicking them out unless they went to get a vaccine by Monday or Tuesday this week.
"We have to help each other if they want to live in my house. They have to do the right thing."
But Rockhole was locked down before that, on Saturday night.
He said the police came in at first, followed by the nurses on Sunday morning.
Mr Rogers said he was not just scared for his immediate family, but for friends and family in Binjari, and everyone else in the Territory too.
"I'm frightened not only for me, but for everyone, not just black fellas,"
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