THE Sage Education and Childcare centre at Wales Street, Belconnen, has been identified as a close exposure location in the latest update to ACT Health’s exposure sites as at 5pm last night (October 1).
The exposure times are September 29, 8.25am-4.30pm and the following day, September 30, 8am-1.30pm.
Anyone who has been to this close contact exposure location at the dates and times listed, is a close contact. They must:
- complete the ACT Contact Declaration Form
- immediately quarantine
- get tested for COVID-19 as advised by ACT Health
- remain in quarantine until advised further by ACT Health, even if there’s a negative test result.
The other newcomers to the list are casual contacts:
- A Bite to Eat Cafe, 8 Chifley Place, Chifley, 29 September, 5.10pm-8pm.
- Scott’s Crossing construction site, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Civic, 29 September, 6.45am -4.30pm.
- Woolworths Metro, Springvale Drive, Hawker , 28 September, 10.50am-11.45am.
- Scott’s Crossing construction site , Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Civic, 28 September, 6.45am -9.30am.
- Woolworths, 15 Mawson Place, Mawson, 28 September, 3.40pm-4.30pm.
- Clinic 88, 1/12 Furzer Street Phillip, 27 September, 2pm-3.30pm.
- McDonald’s, 84 Hardwick Crescent, Holt, 27 September, 9pm-11.59pm.
- Scott’s Crossing, construction site, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Civic, 27 September, 6.45am-4.30pm.
- YourGP@Denman, 1 Felstead Vista, Denman Prospect, 24 September, 12.35pm-1.35pm.
People who have been to casual contact exposure locations during the times listed are expected to complete the ACT Contact Declaration Form, immediately quarantine and get tested for COVID-19 as advised by ACT Health.
If a person was at the casual contact location less than four days ago, ACT Health says they will need two tests – one test as soon as they find out they are a casual contact and another test on day five after they were at the casual contact location.
People at the casual contact location four or more days ago only need to get one test.
The full list can be viewed here.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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