AS of today (February 17) there are no COVID-19 patients in intensive care throughout southern NSW.
Today’s figures from the Southern NSW Local Health District reported that while 19 patients remain in hospital with the virus, there are none currently in the ICU.
It comes as the district reported 252 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total active cases to 2619. 153 of the positive tests were detected by rapid antigen tests (RATs) and 99 were detected by PCR tests.
Throughout southern NSW there are:
- 16 new cases in the Bega Valley
- 35 in Eurobodalla
- 46 in Goulburn Mulwaree
- 106 in Queanbeyan-Palerang
- 27 in the Snowy Monaro
- 7 in the Upper Lachlan
- 15 in the Yass Valley
Who can be trusted?
In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.
If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.
Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.
Thank you,
Ian Meikle, editor
![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.
Read the full article on our website citynews.com.au
#canberra #canberranews](https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
Leave a Reply