People sharing a house with a close contact will need to self-isolate until the close contact receives an initial negative test result. After the close contact receives an initial negative test result, household members of the close contact are no longer required to self-isolate.
People sharing a house with a close contact will need to self-isolate until the close contact receives an initial negative test result. After the close contact receives an initial negative test result, household members of the close contact are no longer required to self-isolate.
People who work in high risk settings (e.g. residential settings such as aged care facilities, military residential groups, boarding schools, boarding houses, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, remote industrial sites with accommodation, migrant workers accommodation, remote communities, abattoirs) must isolate from the contact and not attend high risk settings until effective isolation is achieved.
If you cannot adequately isolate yourself from a person who is a close contact in your home then you will also need to self-isolate. In this situation you will need to self-isolate for the duration of your household member's isolation period, and not be released unless the close contact has a negative test swab since becoming a close contact. For example, if you and your partner are the parents of a child who is a close contact, one parent should be nominated as the dedicated carer of your child and go into isolation with the child. The other parent should either move out or, in appropriately large homes, keep rigorously isolated.
Isolation is a problematic matter, especially when talking about houses with small living spaces, therefore mask & distance should be a must.