Tag: close contact
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Business urges easing of close contact rules
Business NSW and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry say the rules should be relaxed to ease staffing shortages, wanting those deemed close contacts to be allowed to work and undergo daily rapid antigen tests instead. Daniel Hunter, chief executive of Business NSW, said with such high vaccination rates, Australians have demonstrated a capacity to live…
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SA close contact quarantine set to be ditched after COVID wave
It comes as South Australia recorded 5134 new COVID-19 cases today and two deaths – a women in her 80s and a child under the age of five, who Spurrier said had “severe health problems” and had been on a “palliative care pathway”. “Because they did test positive for COVID it will be counted towards…
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Pandemic pain hits casual workers in hip pocket
At the national Australia Day ceremony in 2021, Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke of the contribution by frontline workers during the pandemic. He mentioned health workers, the defence forces, the police and farmers, as well as “the truck drivers, the wholesale and the retail workers keeping our supermarket shelves stocked”. In his 2022 Australia Day…
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‘Close contact’: Australian captain ruled out of Test after restaurant virus exposure
Australia’s captain was at a restaurant on Wednesday night when a person at a nearby table to him discovered they had tested positive to the virus. Cummins immediately left the venue and notified officials, and has since tested negative for COVID-19. But his close proximity to the positive case means he has been judged as…
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Five Ramsay Art Prize finalists on what the award means to them
When Vincent Namatjira was announced as the second person ever to win the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize there was an unexpected, collective sigh of satisfaction let out by anyone and everyone we spoke to in Adelaide’s art scene. Prior to knowing who the winner was, CityMag had collected responses from five of the Ramsay Art…