Happy New Year from the team at PP we hope you got to spend the holiday period enjoying life with restrictions easing however as COVID cases climb, Australian governments have started adopting new ways to keep track of positive cases to help relieve the pressure on enormous PCR waiting times. As a result, at-home rapid antigen tests are fast becoming the norm.
NSW is the latest to bring in a process for registering a positive result from an at-home test, but the rules and regulations are different across the country (just to make things extra confusing).
The rules; self-reporting positive COVID rapid antigen tests became mandatory in NSW from Wednesday January 12, however there is a week’s grace period that will expire on January 19. The NSW government would also like those who tested positive from January 1 onwards to register their test, although it’s not mandatory.
You do not need to register a negative or invalid test or if you’ve had a positive PCR test in the 28 days before your positive rapid antigen test.
How? In your Service NSW app scroll down until you see “COVID-19 resources.” Within that tab there is an option to “register a positive test result” which takes you to the NSW government website. You can lodge a result for yourself, or on behalf of another adult or a child under 15.
You will be asked to determine if you are a “low risk” or “high risk” patient, and if you pick the latter, you will be contacted by NSW Health within 48 hours. NSW Health says positive results should be registered within 24 hours of the test. If you have any issues or need help completing the form, call Service NSW on 13 77 88. Consequences? If you fail to register a positive result from January 19th, you could be fined $1,000.
Please note: most businesses will return to normal trading week commencing 17th January therefore we will update all our job listings and reply to applications. For direct contact with our consultants please email;
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