Masks on public transport and at airports are tipped to be the next to go in NSW, after the state wound back a raft of COVID rules including abolishing compulsory isolation for close contacts | marywardy lucy_carroll
Seven-day home quarantine for household contacts will be scrapped from this Friday, with asymptomatic people who live with a COVID-19 case instead asked to take daily rapid tests and avoid high-risk locations such as aged care homes.
“COVID-19 isn’t over by any stretch of the imagination,” Cheng said, adding that the potential emergence of newer strains of the virus means “there is no guarantee the next variant will be as nice to us as the last one”.“We need to keep a close eye on things and be prepared to change things if we need to,” he said.
Infectious disease expert Professor Peter Collignon said significant natural immunity generated by huge numbers of Omicron infections over the past four months meant it was “the right time” to remove close contact rules. With more than 1600 COVID-positive patients in hospital, NSW Nurses and Midwives Association general secretary Brett Holmes said the changes to isolation and resulting increase in cases would likely place further stress on the health system.
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