A MAN in his 80s from the Queanbeyan-Palerang region and a man in his 60s from the Bega Valley have both died from COVID-19, the Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) has reported today (January 21).
Their deaths bring the total covid death toll in the district since June 2021 to nine.
SNSWLHD reported 525 new cases of the virus throughout southern NSW today, 363 of which were detected by PRC tests and 162 detected by Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs), with the total active cases now at 3679.
Ninety-seven of the new cases were recorded in the Queanbeyan-Palerang region.
There are currently 23 people throughout the district hospitalised with covid, four of which are in intensive care.
Elsewhere in southern NSW there are:
- 42 new cases in the Bega Valley
- 110 in Eurobodalla
- 50 in Goulburn Mulwaree
- 38 in the Snowy Monaro
- 13 in the Upper Lachlan and
- 13 in the Yass Valley
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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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