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This document provides guidance for healthcare workers, employees, healthcare students and volunteers at NSW healthcare facilities who are returning from a trip abroad, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, have been in contact with a case of COVID-19 or have developed any unexplained respiratory symptoms or fever.

You have traveled abroad in the last 14 days.

All travelers arriving in Australia from abroad are required to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine at certain facilities regulated by the New South Wales government. Passengers will be transferred directly to designated facilities after enhanced immigration, customs and health checks at the airport.

I have traveled from Victoria in the last 14 days.

On July 6, 2020, Prime Minister Gladys Prejiklian announced that New South Wales would temporarily close its border with Victoria starting at 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 8. For each person who has been in Victoria in the last 14 days, they must isolate themselves for a period of 14 days from the last time they were in Victoria and follow the self-isolation instructions for people who have traveled from Victoria or Melbourne in the last 14 days.

High risk environments

Healthcare workers, staff, healthcare students and volunteers who have traveled from Victoria in the last 14 days, reside in the NSW / VIC border area, or have been in NSW Community Transition areas should follow the advice for high risk environments.

Confirmed COVID-19 case

Healthcare workers, employees, healthcare students, and volunteers diagnosed with COVID-19 should follow home isolation guidelines for people with confirmed COVID-19 infection.

Contact COVID-19 case

Public health units will notify health workers, staff, health students, and volunteers who have been in close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19. All close contacts should follow home isolation guidelines for close contacts.

Unexplained respiratory symptoms or fever in workers.
The NSW Health Service recommends that all healthcare workers, staff, students, and volunteers with unexplained respiratory symptoms, fever, or loss of taste and smell be tested for COVID-19.

Back to work

For information on when a healthcare worker can return to work, see NSW Health's tips for getting out of isolation.

Key recommendations from the Australian Health Protection Commission for managing workers at risk

On March 30, 2020, the Australian Home Health Protection Committee (AHPPC), based on advice from the Australian Infectious Diseases Network (CDNA), considered provisions for essential workers considered to be most at risk contracting COVID-19 and are at increased risk. Illness if they don't feel well.

With the exception of healthcare settings where personal protective equipment and appropriate precautions are followed, AHPPC believes that due to the transmission characteristics of the virus, correctional and detention facilities and community living spaces are at increased risk of contracting the COVID-19 outbreak.

AHPPC believes, based on current limited evidence, that the following people are at risk or more likely to become seriously ill if they contract the virus: 1, 2, 3, 4

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders age 50 or older with one or more chronic medical conditions
•  People 65 years of age or older with chronic medical conditions. 5 The terms of the definition of “chronic medical conditions” will be improved as more evidence emerges. The most recent list can be accessed at the Ministry of Health.
• People aged 70 and over
• People with weak immune systems (see Health section).