COVID-19 isolation rules NSW

2022 - 4 - 20

Update on COVID settings - News (NSW Health)

The NSW Government today announced close contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case will not be required to isolate, provided they comply with NSW Health ...

However, close contacts will still need to comply with any COVID-19 safety measures that have been put in place in their workplace by employers. From 30 April 2022, unvaccinated international returning travellers will not be required to undertake hotel quarantine. Orders requiring aged care and disability workers to be vaccinated will remain in force. You can book your COVID-19 vaccine or your booster shot, via Get vaccinated . From 6pm on Friday 22 April, close contacts (defined as a household contact or an individual deemed by NSW Health to be a close contact) will not have to isolate, as long as they have no symptoms and comply with the following guidelines: The NSW Government today announced close contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case will not be required to isolate, provided they comply with NSW Health guidelines.

Isolation rules for COVID-19 household contacts scrapped in NSW ... (SBS)

More COVID-19-related deaths have been recorded across the country, while isolation rules for household contacts of people with COVID-19 will ease in ...

"We have been waiting a long time for these sorts of things and the rest of the states I'm sure will continue down that path." "I welcome the fact that in NSW and Victoria they are getting back to normal — hallelujah," he said on Wednesday. Primary school students will no longer have to wear masks, and they will also not be required in retail and hospitality settings. Positive cases still need to self-isolate for the full seven-day period in Victoria and masks will remain mandatory on public transport, in airports and health, aged care and justice settings. Close contacts of confirmed cases will no longer have to quarantine provided they wear a mask indoors and avoid sensitive settings. "We have been waiting a long time for these sorts of things and the rest of the states I'm sure will continue down that path." In Queensland, 594 people are hospitalised with the virus, including 25 in ICU; some 252 patients with COVID-19 are in South Australian Hospitals, including 14 in ICU; there are 59 patients in Tasmanian hospitals, including two in ICU, and 44 people hospitalised in the Northern Territory have COVID-19, including two in ICU. "I welcome the fact that in NSW and Victoria they are getting back to normal — hallelujah," he said on Wednesday. Primary school students will no longer have to wear masks, and they will also not be required in retail and hospitality settings. Positive cases still need to self-isolate for the full seven-day period in Victoria and masks will remain mandatory on public transport, in airports and health, aged care and justice settings. Close contacts of confirmed cases will no longer have to quarantine provided they wear a mask indoors and avoid sensitive settings. In Queensland, 594 people are hospitalised with the virus, including 25 in ICU; some 252 patients with COVID-19 are in South Australian Hospitals, including 14 in ICU; there are 59 patients in Tasmanian hospitals, including two in ICU, and 44 people hospitalised in the Northern Territory have COVID-19, including two in ICU.

NSW and Victoria to scrap Covid isolation requirements for ... (The Guardian)

Covid restrictions to ease further in both states from Friday, with Victoria confident it has reached peak of Omicron wave.

NSW has had the same blip today, but I think that will smooth out over the next few days and we’ll see this plateau phase,” Sutton said. “But today is a day where the people of our state in NSW can be incredibly proud. “This is not the end of the pandemic. Orders requiring aged care and disability workers to be vaccinated will remain in force, however. “But we need the compliance and people to follow suit.” “Today is a significant day for all Victorians – not a wholesale change, but an appropriate next step in this phase of the management of the pandemic,” he said.

Close contacts of COVID-19 cases in NSW no longer required to ... (ABC News)

The NSW government scraps the requirement for close contacts of COVID-19 cases to isolate at home for seven days.

It's a chain reaction." "Staff will be able to return plus the patrons will be able to come and eat. "It is important as we move to the next phase in COVID, that we support the community to understand how COVID is transmitted and how best we can protect the most vulnerable in the community," Dr Chant said. "Today is a day where the people of our state can be incredibly proud to be in a position where we have had an incredibly low death rate," he said. "Overall, the balance we have been able to strike here in our state has led not just of the country but the world." The NSW government has scrapped the requirement for close contacts of COVID-19 cases to isolate at home for seven days.

COVID-19 isolation rules to change in NSW and Victoria. Here are ... (9News)

In both states a positive case of COVID-19 must still isolate for seven days. Here's what we know about the...

In Victoria it is also recommended for close contacts to work from home if possible. In Victoria household and close contacts will no longer need to isolate for seven days from 11.59pm on Friday 22 April. In NSW household and close contacts will no longer need to isolate for seven days from 6pm Friday 22 April.

Close contact rules, major pandemic restrictions scrapped in NSW (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Household contacts of COVID-positive people won't need to isolate for seven days · Public health orders requiring key workers to be vaccinated will be lifted ...

We want to take a cautious and proportionate approach as we enter winter months when we will have flu circulating as well as COVID-19,” she said. “We have to coexist with COVID-19, but we can’t ignore it,” Chant said. We believe today’s announcements are balanced and proportionate,” he said. The state’s remaining quarantine hotel operation will shut on April 30. The removal of close contact rules will come into effect from 6pm on Friday. “So it is important [to acknowledge] that we are expecting the levels of transmission in the community to still be maintained at high levels,” Chant said.

Two states scrap major Covid rules (NEWS.com.au)

Victoria and NSW have scrapped their remaining Covid rules, with household contacts no longer needing to isolate.

The imminent overhaul comes in response to pressure on state governments in both Victoria and NSW to relax their Covid rules. Close contacts will need to wear a mask indoors when outside their home and take a rapid test before seeing people not in their household. Household contacts will also need to carry out five rapid antigen tests over the course of the seven days that they previously would have been in isolation. In Victoria, household contacts will have to wear a mask indoors and avoid sensitive settings. Victoria and NSW have scrapped their remaining Covid rules, with household contacts no longer needing to isolate. Victoria and NSW have announced huge overhauls of their Covid rules, with both states making one big change to isolation orders for household contacts.