The changes, which came into effect at midnight on Thursday in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT, have been welcomed by business leaders.
“Close contacts will be defined, except in exceptional circumstances, as those who usually live with or who have stayed in the same household for more than 4 hours as a case during their infectious period.” They can go free after seven days, subject to a negative Rapid Antigen Test on day six, but must monitor for symptoms for a further seven days and repeat testing if symptoms occur.
"Anyone catching Omicron in a restaurant or pub for example and who are asymptomatic won't know they're infected and could pass the virus on to more vulnerable people. He added that only one group of the population ought to be concerned about COVID-19 – the unvaccinated.The new rules have been welcomed by business leaders.
"This move will also help ensure supply chains are working, shelves are stocked and businesses can keep their doors open by taking a risk based approach to managing close contacts."
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Pushing RAT tests on everyone, but we can't get them anywhere, that's if you can afford to buy one. What happens to the people that are already struggling financially?
Oh good, as long as ‘business’ is happy, that’s good then. Business being happy is what’s most important, yep 🤔. Glad to see we have our priorities right.
“experts”. Its a fair bet none of them have actually treated anyone with the virus.
Same strategy as Israel and the US (as far testing is concerned). Something strange in the air
It is to hide the numbers and pander to business and NSW which has fckd the country again. ScottyDoesNothing ScottishIndependence6
No kidding....