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COVID-19 Hotspots and High-Risk Venues

Last updated 07 Oct, 2024

As a provider of Residential Care, RSL LifeCare receives specific instructions and guidance from NSW Health and ACT Health on restricting visitors to our residential care homes. RSL LifeCare must follow these restrictions.

You can read the advice that we are issued by NSW Health here.

You can read the advice that we are issued by ACT Health here.

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

Location/ State Geographical area/LGA/ location Who does this apply to? Period to exclude from
International Any international location Staff & visitors Past 14 days

 

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

Location/ State Geographical area/LGA/ location Who does this apply to? Period to exclude from
International Any international location Staff & visitors Past 14 days
New South Wales NSW LGAs: Albruy, Cessnock, Greater Hume, Kemsey, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Wentworth Staff & Visitors Past 14 days
Victoria Banyule, Bayside, Boroondara, Brimbank, Cardinia, Casey, Darebin, Frankston, Glen Eira, Greater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Kingston, Knox, Manningham, Maribyrnong, Maroondah, Melbourne, Melton, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Port Phillip, Stonnington, Whitehorse, Whittlesea, Wyndham, Yarra Yarra Ranges, Baw Baw, Benalla, Greater Bendigo, Greater Geelong, Greater Shepparton, Latrobe, Mildura, Mitchell Shire, Moorabook, Macedon, Swan Hill, Wangaratta, Wodonga Staff & Visitors Past 14 days

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

State/ country
ACT
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia
New Zealand

 

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