NSW Health has today (February 11) reported the death of a man in Queanbeyan due to COVID-19.
It marks the 15th death in the Southern NSW Local Health District since the beginning of the pandemic.
The district recorded 230 new cases of the virus in the 24 hours to 4pm yesterday, including 162 rapid antigen tests (RATs) and 68 PCR tests. It brings the total number of active cases to 2635.
There are currently 24 people in hospital with the virus, two of whom are in intensive care.
Throughout southern NSW there are:
- 24 new cases in the Bega Valley
- 28 cases in Eurobodalla
- 41 in Goulburn Mulwaree
- 98 in Queanbeyan-Palerang
- 28 in Snowy Monaro
- 1 in the Upper Lachlan
- 10 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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