More signs of the easing coronavirus situation across the country.
South Australia’s COVID coordinator, Police Commissioner Grant Stevens (pictured above), announced yesterday that the state had updated its emergency management directions for people visiting and working at aged care homes.
The new Emergency Management (Residential Aged Care Facilities No 12) (COVID-19) Direction 2020 means:
- Care and support visits are no longer restricted to one person or two people together.
- There is no longer a restriction on the number of care and support visits a resident can have.
- A personal care worker should, to the extent reasonably possible, not provide care to a resident at another aged care facility. However, should they provide care at more than one home, the facility must notify the operator that they are doing so, with the facility being required to keep a register of those workers who do provide care at more than one facility.
- A residential aged care facility operator must ensure all persons who provide care to a resident who has undertaken a COVID-19 test wears appropriate personal protective equipment until the test result is known.
Other rules including the requirement for influenza vaccinations still apply – you can find the directions here.
