{"id":21566,"date":"2022-03-22T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/?page_id=21566"},"modified":"2022-07-15T02:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T02:15:46","slug":"update-to-whiddon-kelso-employees-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/update-to-whiddon-kelso-employees-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Whiddon Kelso employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>23 March 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have had several employees at Whiddon Kelso test positive to COVID-19. The employees were wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), which means that the risk is considered low.<\/p>\n<p>As a precaution, all employees and visitors are required to undertake rapid antigen testing when they arrive at Whiddon Kelso, and to wear an N95 mask and face shield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employees must wear an N95 mask and face shield, complete a rapid antigen test, and social distancing must be observed at all times, including the staff room and nurses station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been no recommendation at this stage by the PHU for employees not directly impacted to self-isolate, and as such, employees can continue to come to work and attend their normal shifts.<\/p>\n<p>We are working closely with the local Public Health Unit and following their advice, and have activated our COVID-19 response plan to ensure all necessary precautionary measures are implemented.<\/p>\n<p>We want you to know that it is our highest priority to keep everyone in our family safe and well, and we are doing everything we can to achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>We are also committed to keeping you up-to-date of the situation and will provide a further update once we know more about the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 March 2022 We have had several employees at Whiddon Kelso test positive to COVID-19. The employees were wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), which means that the risk is considered low. As a precaution, all employees and visitors are required to undertake rapid antigen testing when they arrive at Whiddon Kelso, and to wear an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24797,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566\/revisions\/24797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}