Summary

• Masks are still required in health care facilities, in a taxi, rideshare vehicle or on public transport and planes and recommended where you cannot social distance.
• Confirmed cases of COVID-19 must:
  • Isolate for at least 7 days from the date they were tested, and only leave isolation after day 7 if they have no symptoms or only a mild dry cough, mild fatigue, and/or loss of taste/smell
  • Avoid visiting high risk settings, like aged care facilities or hospitals, for 7 days after leaving isolation
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a confirmed case 
• When leaving home once completing your isolation, you must wear a face mask at all times for the next 7 days including in all indoors settings and outdoors when you can’t stay physically distanced from others
• You don’t need a negative test result to go back to work or study. There is no need to show a negative test to your employer or educational institution.
• Close contacts are defined as someone who lives with or stays overnight in the same premises as a confirmed case or who has spent 4+ hours in a residential setting with a confirmed case while they were infectious. This does not include workplaces.
• Symptomatic close contacts are required to test and to isolate until symptoms resolve - even if they return a negative RAT result.

• Asymptomatic close contacts will not be required to isolate as long as they:

  • Produce a negative RAT every second day for a week (day 0, 2, 4 and 6)

  • Wear a mask outside of the home including in offices and on sites

  • Do not visit any vulnerable or high-risk settings

  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a close contact

• In the 28 days after completing isolation, you are not required to undertake any testing or close contact requirements but you should stay at home until you feel better
• Report all positive RATs to QLD Health either via the below link or by phone: 134 COVID (134 268)

Summary

• Masks are still required in health care facilities, courts, on public transport and planes and recommended in indoors settings and where you cannot physically distance.
• Confirmed cases of COVID-19 must:
  • Isolate for at least 7 days from the date they were tested, and only leave isolation after day 7 if they have no symptoms. 
  • After 7 days, if you are still symptomatic, a sore throat, runny nose, cough or shortness of breath please remain in isolation until 24 hours after your symptoms have resolved. If you have other symptoms such as fever/ headaches you can leave isolation but you can contact your GP if you are concerned about your health.
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a confirmed case 
  • You do not need to get tested again to be released from isolation after 7 days
• You are a household contact if you have spent more than four hours with someone who has COVID-19 inside a house, accommodation or care facility.

• Household contacts are not required to isolate given:
  • Produce a negative RAT on at least 5 days out of the 7 day isolation period
  • Wear a mask indoors when outside your home 
  • Do not visit health and/or care facilities 
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a household contact
  • If you do not follow these steps, you must quarantine for the 7 day period – and you are required to get tested on Day 1 and Day 6.
• You are a social or workplace contact if you spent more than 15 minutes face-to-face with someone who has COVID-19, or if you spent more than two hours with them in the same indoor space
  • If symptomatic, you must use a RAT 
  • If asymptomatic it is strongly recommended to use a daily RAT for 5 days 
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a social or workplace contact
• If you have had confirmed COVID-19 in the last 4 weeks, you do not have to comply with testing or household/close contact guidelines 
• Please report all positive RATs to VIC Health either via the below link or by phone: 1800 675 398
• If there have been 5 or more cases within a 7-day period , please notify the Department of Health via the COVID-19 outbreak notification form.

Summary

• Masks are required to be worn my all close contacts, and when on board a plane
• Confirmed cases of COVID-19 must:
  • Isolate for at least 7 days from the date they were tested, and only leave isolation after day 7 if they have no symptoms. 
  • If you are still symptomatic, a sore throat, runny nose, cough or shortness of breath please remain in isolation until 24 hours after your symptoms have resolved. If you have other symptoms such as fever/ headaches you can leave isolation but you can contact your GP if you are concerned about your health.
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a confirmed case 
• Cases can be released from isolation 7 days only if they meet the following two criteria:
  • Your respiratory symptoms (cough, runny nose, sore throat, or shortness of breath) have gone, or are much better and
  • You have not had a fever (or signs of fever such as chills or night sweats) for at least 24 hours.
• Close contacts are defined as someone who lives with or stays overnight in the same premises as a confirmed case or who has spent 4+ hours in a residential setting with a confirmed case while they were infectious. 
• If you are a close contact you must:
  • Immediately take a RAT once you are aware you are a close contact
  • Test once a day before you leave the house for the 7 days after you have been told you are a close contact
  • All close contacts must test on day 6, regardless of whether they are leaving their home or not
  • Wear a face mask in any indoor space outside your home
  • Do not visit health and/or care facilities 
  • Notify Hutchies on becoming a close contact
• You are a social or workplace contact if you spent more than 15 minutes face-to-face with someone who has COVID-19, or if you spent more than two hours with them in the same indoor space.
  • Social contacts are not people from your workplace or school.
  • If they develop symptoms, they must get tested and stay in quarantine until they receive a negative test result.
• If they develop symptoms, they must get tested and stay in quarantine until they receive a negative test result.
• If you have had confirmed COVID-19 in the last 4 weeks, you do not have to comply with testing or close contact guidelines 
• Please report all positive RATs to TAS Health either via the below link or by phone: 1800 671 738

Summary

• Masks are still required in health care facilities, on public transport and planes, recommended where you cannot social distance and for household contacts
• Confirmed cases of COVID-19 must:
  • Isolate at home for 7 days,
  • If you have no symptoms after 7 days, then no further test is required, and you can stop isolating
  • If you have symptoms on day 7, stay in isolation until those symptoms clear or get clearance from a medical professional before leaving isolation
• Notify Hutchies on becoming a confirmed case or a household contact 
• Asymptomatic household contacts must undertake COVID-19 testing if they are regularly going to their place of work or study and consider undertaking a test on or after day 6, unless regular testing has already been undertaken.
• If it is not practical to work or study from home, and where there is mutual agreement for the person to attend the workplace or facility, a household contact must:
  • Undertake a COVID-19 test in the 24 hours prior to returning to work or study and then every 48 hours if ongoing attendance is required.
• A household contact must undertake a COVID-19 test if they develop any symptoms of COVID-19, no matter how mild.  
  • They must isolate until a negative result is received.
  • Even if a negative test result is returned, a household contact should stay at home until their symptoms resolve.
• If you have had confirmed COVID-19 in the last 28 days, you do not have to comply with testing or close contact guidelines
• Please report all positive RATs to ACT Health either via the below link