Close contact rules, major pandemic restrictions scrapped in NSW | lucy_carroll marywardy
, household contacts will no longer need to isolate for seven days but will instead be required to undertake daily rapid antigen testing before coming into contact with any people outside their household. The removal of close contact rules will come into effect from 6pm on Friday.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said, that while NSW had passed the peak of the latest COVID-19 wave, the “plateau is quite flat, and the decline is quite slow”. People who test positive to COVID-19 via a PCR test or a RAT will still be required to isolate for seven days. Chant said the overhaul to the rules were part of simplifying COVID measures as case numbers continued to decline and the state lives with the virus, but could not rule out reintroducing restrictions should cases surge or a more severe variant emerges.
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