COVID-19 Hotspots and High-Risk Venues

Rules for entering RAC facilities

1. No staff or visitor can enter a residential care home if they are a close contact of a person with confirmed COVID-19 and are within their isolation period.
2. No individual should enter a residential care home if in the last 14 days they have knowingly been exposed to anyone who has been tested and is awaiting results or has tested positive for, COVID-19.
3. No individual should enter a residential care home if in the last 14 days they have knowingly in the last 14 days been exposed to anyone who has symptoms of: cough, sore throat, fever greater than 37.5c, fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhoea, or headache.
4. No individual should enter a residential care home if they feel well have any symptoms of COVID-19 and have tested positive for COVID-19.
5. No individual should enter a residential care home if they or any person in their household has returned from overseas (including New Zealand) or visited in the last 14 days, any hotspots, listed by the Department of Health in an Australian state/territory (see the section below Hotspot Contact Tracing/ Venue website for each State).
6. All staff, essential visitors and contractors must always wear a surgical face mask in a Residential Care Home in NSW
7. All individuals who enter the residential care home must abide by the social distancing rules of 1 person per 1.5 square meters.
8. All visitors aged 12 years and over to Residential Care Homes in NSW must have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days before their visit unless they can provide a COVID-19 medical contraindication certificate, or the visit is for end of life.
   • Visitors to Residential Care Homes in the ACT are no longer required to be double vaccinated, but it is strongly recommended.

NSW Specific Screening

All residential care homes in NSW must exclude visitors and or staff based on the rules listed below. There are different rules for who is excluded and the period they should be excluded from. Please check the table below carefully

ACT Specific Screening Rules

All residential care homes in the ACT must exclude visitors and or staff based on the rules listed below. There are different rules for who is excluded and the period they should be excluded from. Please check the table below carefully

Hotspot Contact Tracing/ Venue website for each State

Below are links to State Government webpages that detail the hotspot venues in that relevant state. Before visiting an RSL LifeCare site individuals should carefully check these websites to ensure they have not been to any hotspot venue in any state.

If any individual has been to any of these venues, they should not enter any of our premises and following all the listed health directions