Published 8th April 2021
Brisbane City and Moreton Bay Region LGAs are declared as Restricted Areas for the purposes of the Aged Care Direction effective immediately.
For residential aged care facilities in those areas this means:
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Visitors are restricted to residential aged care facilities within the restricted Local Government Areas of:
Despite these restrictions, persons may enter a restricted residential aged care facility if they are:
Any person (other than a resident) permitted to enter a restricted facility must not enter, or remain on, the premises without wearing a single use surgical face mask. A person does not have to wear a mask if it will create a risk to their health or safety.
Providers are encouraged to stay up to date via the QLD Health website.
Please note that these restrictions will not affect the rollout of vaccines to impacted facilities and teams will comply with Queensland government public health orders including wearing the required PPE to protect residents and staff while administering vaccines.
Aged care providers are asked to ensure they have a sufficient supply of PPE, to use their own supply of PPE first and to request extra supply as and when needed. If you urgently need PPE and cannot source it, please submit an online application. The application will need to be completed for your request to be considered. The Commonwealth is prioritising requests for PPE from the National Medical Stockpile to aged care services that are most in need.
Please visit the Australian Government Department of Health website for information and resources to assist in preparing and managing a COVID-19 outbreak including what to do in the first 24 hours of an outbreak in a residential aged care facility.
Source:Unknown Author, 2021, Department of Health (https://www.health.gov.au/)
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