{"id":26574,"date":"2023-09-22T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/?p=26574"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:38:57","slug":"important-update-from-whiddon-maclean-22-09-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/important-update-from-whiddon-maclean-22-09-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Update from Whiddon Maclean 22\/09\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Residents, Families, and Friends<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that Whiddon Maclean is now a COVID-free zone, this means that masks are also no longer necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masks are no longer required unless there are moderate or high levels of respiratory viruses circulating in the community<\/li>\n<li>Rapid antigen testing for employees will move to every 72 hours for the next 4 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Rapid antigen testing for each visitor will continue unless they are daily visitors, who can revert to testing every 72 hours<\/li>\n<li>All adults aged 75 years and older are recommended to receive an additional 2023 COVID-19 vaccine dose if 6 months have passed since their last dose<\/li>\n<li>We will continue the early use of anti-virals for residents testing positive for influenza or COVID<\/li>\n<li>Restrictions remain in place for entry to services if an employee or visitor has tested positive for COVID or has respiratory symptoms<\/li>\n<li>Staff are strongly encouraged to stay up-to-date with all recommended vaccines including COVID-19 and influenza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>The Whiddon Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Residents, Families, and Friends We are pleased to announce that Whiddon Maclean is now a COVID-free zone, this means that masks are also no longer necessary. Updated Guidelines Masks are no longer required unless there are moderate or high levels of respiratory viruses circulating in the community Rapid antigen testing for employees will move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26575,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574\/revisions\/26575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiddon.com.au\/comms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}