‘You just feel lost and frightened’: COVID numbers rise in western NSW | CameronGooley
An Indigenous community leader in far western NSW has claimed that the state’s Health Department took days to contact him after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 , amid allegations the state government is letting remote communities down as the virus spreads in the state’s west.
Mr Kennedy has tested positive to COVID-19, as have several members of his family. But he said the information he received from the Health Department came after days of waiting. “If I didnt have family working in health then I’d be sitting back wondering whether I’m going to die or not.”Of the 318 cases that have been detected in the western NSW health district over the last month, more than half have been Aboriginal people.
The ALS’s deputy chief executive, Anthony Carter, said he’d heard of several cases of fines being issued inappropriately, such as a man with a known mental illness being issued a court attendance notice for wandering around a regional town. Just under 28,000 Indigenous people have been fully vaccinated so far in NSW. That’s just 10.5 per cent of the state’s overall Indigenous population, according to the 2016 census.
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