🚜 Regional News ACM Rural Events have announced the postponement of the AgQuip field days from 17-19 August in Gunnedah NSW due to increasing COVID-19 concerns. In the North West, NSW Police have selected school-based Aboriginal trainees to help improve relationships in the community and to provide job experience and TAFE qualifications to students. Dam…
–IMPORTANT– From TODAY 12 July, all workplaces and retail businesses must use the NSW Government’s QR code to check in all visitors, including customers, staff, contractors and delivery people. Non-complying businesses can be fined or even temporarily closed. For more details, visit: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/covid-safe/customer-record-keeping/setting-up-electronic-check-and-qr-codes Note that while farms are exempt from requiring QR code checks, it’s…
😷 Health News Greater Sydney remains in lockdown this week, . If you have been in the Greater Sydney area (including Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour), you must follow the stay at home rules for 14 days after you left the area. Tighter restrictions remain in place for regional NSW, including the following…
😷 Health News The Delta COVID-19 strain is spreading across the country from two sources – one in Sydney and one centred around a mine in the Northern Territory. Restrictions have increased in NT, Brisbane, and Perth in response, with Sydney going into a city-wide lockdown until 9 July 2021. If you have been in…
😷 Health News The Delta COVID-19 strain is responsible for the current outbreak in Sydney, with 11 cases identified so far and a growing list of case locations and alerts. If you’ve been around Sydney in the last 10 days, please visit https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/case-locations-and-alerts.aspx to see if you’ve been to an affected venue and get tested…
😷 Health News Victoria is on track to ease restrictions this week, with 67 cases now recorded in this outbreak. Several venues in regional NSW have been identified as visited by a person potentially infectious with COVID-19, in Narrandera, Forbes, Dubbo, Coonabarabran and Moree. No local cases have yet been found. For the full list…
😷 Health News Victoria’s 4th lockdown is underway, and is due to end at 11:59pm on Thursday. So far 54 cases have been identified, with high testing rates over several thousand close contacts and almost 200 venues of high concern. The Victorian government have announced a $250million business support package to target 90,000 businesses affected…
😷 Health News 15 suburbs in Sydney’s inner west are on alert after traces of COVID found in local sewerage treatment facility. Two likely positive cases have been identified in Melbourne’s northern suburbs today. From today, those 50 years and over who cannot access the AstraZeneca vaccine through their GP are eligible to book into…
😷 Health News Restrictions have been eased in Greater Sydney from today after no new cases of community transmission were recorded over the last week. Check your eligibility for a COVID vaccine here: https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/eligibility With the weather cooling down we are coming into flu season, and it is more important than ever to get a…
😷 Health News Sydney’s increased restrictions will be extended to the end of this week, while health authorities continue to try to identify the missing link between a quarantine case and the recent small outbreak. From today, people aged 40-49 can register for a COVID vaccine. The vaccinations can then be booked once doses become…