Acute Respiratory Illness Response<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 & Influenza update 445 | 9\/09\/2022 \u2013 Update 2 Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n Metro North is currently in Tier 1<\/a> of our COVID and Influenza Response Plan<\/a>. We are reviewing weekly. Please see the updated guide for transmission based precautions<\/a> for COVID-19 for PPE requirements.<\/p>\n From 6pm today changes will come into effect for the Management of Diagnosed Cases of COVID-19 and Close Contacts Direction<\/em> to reduce the isolation period from seven to five days. This is in line with the Commonwealth Government and Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) recommendations.<\/p>\n Hospitals, aged care facilities, disability accommodation facilities are still considered vulnerable facilities. This means that although staff can leave isolation after five days if they have no symptoms, they cannot enter our facilities until after day 7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Further to my earlier message, under the updated Management of Diagnosed Cases of COVID-19 and Close Contacts Direction,<\/em> from 6pm today, visitors are not able to enter our facilities until after day 10 <\/strong>from the start of isolation.<\/p>\n Visitors to hospitals, residential aged care facilities, and shared disability accommodation services:<\/p>\n All other isolation requirements<\/a> will remain the same.<\/p>\n The Chief Health Officer has also revoked the requirement to wear face masks on domestic flights.<\/p>\n Masks are still required indoors for hospitals and healthcare settings, residential aged care and disability accommodation facilities, corrective services facilities, and on public transport and commercial passenger vehicles, where a person is outside of their home and has COVID-19 symptoms or is awaiting the results of a PCR test, or where directed to by an emergency officer (public health).<\/p>\n I will update you of any changes to face masks and PPE requirements.<\/p>\n Your GP can also provide:<\/p>\n Regards,<\/p>\n Louise O\u2019Riordan<\/strong>![\"Message](\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/ic-banner-ari.jpg\" "\\"ic-banner-ari\\"")
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\n<\/strong><\/p><\/h1><\/div>Further to my earlier message, under the updated Management of Diagnosed Cases of COVID-19 and Close Contacts Direction<\/em>, from 6pm today, visitors are not able to enter our facilities until after day 10<\/strong> from the start of isolation.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Isolation period changes – UPDATED<\/h3>\n
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Face masks direction<\/h3>\n
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\nMetro North Health Incident Controller<\/p>\n<\/div>