Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 update 403 | 05/05/2022
Dear colleagues,
- Current situation
- Recording your booster
Current situation
Metro North remains in Tier 3 of our COVID response plan. We are reviewing regularly based on the number of COVID positive patients in our care and how many staff are out of the workplace.
Today we have 464 staff out of the workplace as close contacts or with COVID.
In today’s IMT the issue of clinical trial monitors was raised again. Under tier 3 there are no specific restrictions to clinical trials.
The COVID staff debrief survey is still open for feedback and local Teams sessions are happening throughout the week. If you haven’t yet provided feedback, please share your thoughts about what aspects of our COVID response we should incorporate into our future planning or into business as usual, and where we need to improve.
Recording your booster
Thank you to the almost 6000 staff who have updated you vaccination record to include your COVID booster.
Recording your booster is quick and easy:
- Download your COVID digital certificate from your myGov account
- Go to the COVID-19 Vaccination Hub
- Choose the +Booster Vaccination option
- Add your booster details
- Upload or drag and drop your certificate
- Save.
Regards,
Louise O’Riordan
Metro North Health Incident Controller
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Current Metro North Health tier activated – Tier 3
Helpful links
- Register your positive RAT result
- Upload evidence of your vaccine or booster
- Vaccination locations
- Qld Health general COVID-19 page
- Metro North COVID-19 extranet
- COVID vidcast recordings on QHEPS
Metro North HHS – overview of cases*
| Patients managed by HHS | Fever clinics | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Deaths** | No. of clinics | Presentations | |||
| Total | ICU patients | Yesterday | |||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 61 | 3 | 0 | 414 | 75 | 3 | 171 | |
Norfolk Island – overview of cases***
| Patients managed by HHS | Close Contacts in quarantine | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Total cases including recovered | Deaths | ||||
| Total | ICU patients | ||||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 274 | 0 | 12 | |
*As at the above date
**Metro North Health has recorded deaths (one person a return traveller into NSW, who passed away in NSW)
*** As part of an Intergovernmental Agreement, from 1 January 2022 Metro North Health is providing a number of health support services to Norfolk Island. This includes advice and support to staff on island in terms of managing COVID patients. The numbers in this section of the table refer to COVID patients who remain on Norfolk Island and are receiving direct care by staff on Norfolk Island.