[Yvonne Andrews]

Just to follow up on this, apologies for the large gap in response.

Now we have passed April and have to purchase our own RATS and there is an increase in disease again I would be interested in knowing what other homes are doing.

At present we have ceased surveillance testing and are just doing the following:
Anyone with symptoms testing – if negative RAT then PCR is done.
We have stopped RAT testing visitors unless it is high in the community (we can only tell this by staff getting COVID)
If an exposure in a resident, then daily testing of staff and visitors for a minimum week and surgical masks for all staff
If no residents positive, but more than 5 staff call in sick with COVID-19 then we introduce daily RAT and wearing of surgical masks again.
If an outbreak occurs, we daily test and N95 for the area of the outbreak, surgical masks for the rest of the home.
Are people still wearing Face Shields?

I would love to know who you got the quote from for the triple capability RATS we have a couple of homes that struggle to get PCR’s done. I can’t ask you direct as you posted anonymously so hope whoever wrote that sees this.

I would also like to know how people get information on levels in the Community.
We don’t have to report RATS anymore and the NSW data from the government is always at least 2 weeks behind. I get a report from one PHU that gives a summary of all of NSW but not sure where they get the data.

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