• Rydges Hotel in Camperdown on Saturday 29 August from 2pm to 3:15pm
• Quality Suites (foyer) in Camperdown on Saturday 29 August from 3:15pm to 4:30pm
• It’s Time for Thai restaurant in Newtown on Friday 28 August from 5pm to 8pm
• Newtown Train Station on Friday 28 August from  5:10pm to 5:20pm
• BWS in Newtown (123 King Street) on Friday 28 August from 5:15pm to 5:40pm
• Off Ya Tree in Newtown on Friday 28 August from 7:15pm to 7:55pm
• Carslaw Building toilets, University of Sydney on Friday 28 August from 8pm to 8:20pm
• Rosebery Post Shop on Wednesday 26 August from 1:30pm to 1:40pm
• Virgin Active Margaret Street Gym in Sydney on 26 August from 5:10pm to 6:40pm
• Four in Hand Pub in Paddington on Wednesday 26 August from 6:30pm to 10pm
• Virgin Active Pitt Street Gym in Sydney on Tuesday 25 August from 5:00pm to 6:30pm
• Randwick Golf Club in Malabar on Tuesday 25 August from 11:50am to 12:20pm
• Updated: Virgin Gym in Zetland:  people who attended the Active Dance class at 7:40pm on Monday 24 August
• 300 George Street in Sydney on Wednesday 19 August, Thursday 20 August, Friday 21 August, and Monday 24 August
• Fitness First in Randwick on Sunday 23 August from 3:30pm to 4:15pm
• Updated: City Tattersalls Fitness Centre in Sydney on:
  • Wednesday 19 August from 8am to 2pm
  • Friday 21 August from 8am to 2pm, including:
    • Aqua Aerobics from 10am to 10:45am
    • Stretch Class from 11am to 11:50am
    • Pump Class from 12:15pm to 1pm
  • Sunday 23 August from 8am to 2pm
  • Monday 24 August from 8am to 2pm
  • Tuesday 25 August from 8am to 2pm
  • Other members of City Tattersalls should get tested if they have even the mildest symptoms.
  • Anyone who attended the Club between Tuesday 4 August and Tuesday 18 August 2020 should get tested for COVID-19, regardless of symptoms, and self-isolate until a negative test result is received. If you receive a negative result, you can leave isolation.
• Updated: Broadway Shopping Centre in Glebe on Saturday 22 August from 3:30pm to 5pm, including Apple Store from 3:40pm to 4:40pm; and House on Monday 24 August from 2:00pm to 2:10pm
• Updated: Fitness First Bond Street in Sydney on Thursday 20 August from 12pm to 4:30pm, and on Friday 21 August from 12pm to 4:30pm

• Thursday 27 August
  • X39 Departure 7:21am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 7:40am Oxford Street at Brisbane Street
• Wednesday 26 August
  • X39 Departure 7:21am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 7:39am Oxford Street at Brisbane Street
    311 Departure 7:48am Central Station (Eddy Avenue) Stand B, Arrival 7:58am Darlinghurst Road at Burton Street
    333 Departure 7:39am Bondi Road at Dudley Street, Arrival 7:55am Bondi Junction Station, Grafton Street Stand Q
    389 Departure 4:07pm St Vincent's Hospital, Burton Street, Arrival 4:23pm Town Hall Station, Park Street
    Stand J
    339 Departure 12:59pm Museum Station, Arrival 1:21pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
• Tuesday 25 August
  • X39 Departure 7:20am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 7:38am Oxford Street at Brisbane Street
    333 Departure 8:19am Bondi Road at Dudley Street, Arrival 8:31am Bondi Junction Station, Grafton Street Stand Q
    339 Departure 1:55pm Museum Station, Arrival 2:20pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
    333 Departure 6:07pm Bondi Junction Station, Stand A, Arrival 6:16pm Bondi Road at Dudley Street
    389 Departure 4:12pm St Vincent's Hospital, Burton Street, Arrival 4:23pm Town Hall Station, Park Street
    Stand J
    440 Departure 7:54am Central Station (Eddy Avenue) Stand B, Arrival 8:05am Oxford Street at West Street
• Monday 24 August
  • 339 Departure 5:30am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 5:53am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
  • X39 Departure 7:20am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 7:39am Oxford Street at Brisbane Street
  • 339 Departure 9:48am Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 9:54am St James Station, Elizabeth Street
  • 339 Departure 2:02pm Clovelly Road opposite Searle Avenue, Arrival 2:21pm Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
  • 339 Departure 3:15pm Museum Station, Arrival 3:46pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
  • X39 Departure 6:35pm Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 7:03pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
• Saturday 22 August
  • 339 Departure 7:27am Clovelly Rd opposite Searle Avenue, Arrival 7:50am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
• Friday 21 August
  • 339 Departure 5:26am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 5:49am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
  • 339 Departure 6:29am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 6:54am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
  • 339 Departure 2:42pm Clovelly Road opposite Searle Avenue, Arrival 3:06pm Sheraton on the Park, Elizabeth Street
  • X39 Departure 6:35pm Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 6:56pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
• Thursday 20 August
  • X39 Departure 6:08pm from Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 6:40pm at Clovelly Road and Carrington Road, Randwick
  • 339 
    • Departure 6:30am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 6:58am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
    • Departure 9:47am Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 10:17am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road
    • Departure 2:34pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival 3pm Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
• Wednesday 19 August
  • 339 Departure: 5:57am Clovelly Road at Carrington Road, Arrival: 6:16am Martin Place Station, Elizabeth Street
  • X39 Departure 5:57pm Pitt Street opposite Australia Square, Arrival 6:27pm Clovelly Road at Carrington Road

• Tuesday 25 August
  • ​​​​​​8:32am from Bondi Junction to Martin Place, arriving at 8:42am, Station stops: Edgecliff, Kings Cross
  • 5:51pm from Martin Place to Bondi Junction, arriving at 6:05pm, Station stops: Kings Cross, Edgecliff

The Australian Government has announced it will provide an additional $563.3 million to further support the aged care sector’s response to COVID-19.

This takes the Government’s support for senior Australians in aged care to over $1.5 billion since the pandemic began.

The package includes an additional $245 million to extend the COVID-19 Support Payment for all residential aged care providers and an additional $154.5 million for a third Workforce Retention Payment based on employment at 30 November 2020.

See more on this funding below.
 
NSW Health has provided updated advice for Residential Aged Care Facilities and Home Care Providers regarding the use of masks and visitor restrictions.

Following recent cases in the Sydney, there is a request for residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Sydney, the Nepean Blue Mountains and Central Coast regions to implement visitor restrictions for the next two weeks. In addition, staff who work or live in these areas must wear face masks whilst at work. This temporary requirement will be reviewed in two weeks.

The Australian Government is prioritising Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) distribution from the National Medical Stockpile to aged care services that are most in need.

To ensure PPE from the National Medical Stockpile is effectively prioritised on a needs-basis, providers are being asked to complete a new Aged Care PPE Request Form, please submit an online application. Providers should also continue to try to source the PPE through suppliers while awaiting a response. Providers need to establish an ongoing general PPE supply.
 

• Six Steps to Stop the Spread
• Face Masks: how they protect you and when to use them
• Victorian Aged Care Response Centre (VACRC) – First month of operation

The Australian Government will provide an additional $563.3 million to extend support for the aged care sector’s response to COVID-19, announced in March and subsequently as part of the Aged Care response plan.

This takes our Government’s support to senior Australians in Aged Care to over $1.5 billion since the pandemic began.

We are committed to supporting senior Australians in Aged Care, workers and providers in Victoria to respond to the ongoing crisis and are putting in place critical actions to ensure we remain prepared across the country.

Building on the $205 million COVID-19 Support Payment provided to all residential Aged Care providers in June 2020, the Australian Government will extend this payment to provide a further $245 million injection into all facilities.

This funding will be required to be used by providers to fund and support enhanced infection control capability, including through an on-site clinical lead.

Funding may also be used to address other COVID-19 related costs such as increased staffing costs, communications with families and managing visitation arrangements.

Providers will be required to report how these funds were used for additional COVID-19 related costs through strict requirements in providers’ end of financial year returns.

Providers will receive around $975 per resident in major metropolitan areas and around $1,435 per resident in all other areas.

This payment will be provided through Services Australia by early October.

In addition, the Australian Government will continue the 30 per cent increase in the viability supplement and the residential care homeless supplement for a further six months.

In recognition of the higher costs providers face in hotspot areas, particularly in supporting their staff, the Government will provide additional levels of support.

The Supporting Aged Care Workers in COVID-19 Grant has been open since 4 August, to help providers cover the costs of implementing single site workforce arrangements in current hotspots of Greater Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire.

This funding will be extended from an initial period of eight weeks to 12 weeks with a total of $92.4 million available.

Further funding under this grant will be activated as new hotspots are declared by the Commonwealth, based on local circumstances.

Aged Care workers are continuing to provide invaluable care for our senior Australians.
In recognition of the ongoing pressure and challenges, the Australian Government will provide a third Workforce Retention Payment based on employment at 30 November 2020, costing $154.5 million.

This will provide a financial incentive for workers to continue to provide the frontline care that is needed in facilities across the country. This third payment will have the same eligibility criteria as the first two rounds (the first paid in July, the second scheduled for September) of the workforce retention bonus.

Finally, the Government will expand support for older Australians who temporarily relocate from residential Aged Care facilities to the community to live with their family due to concerns about COVID-19, with an additional $71.4 million for the Commonwealth Home Support Programme.

Woollahra Council has extended a range of relief measures for local small businesses to help ease the ongoing economic impacts of COVID-19.

The measures, valued in excess of $2 million, are in addition to a $5 million relief package launched in March to help all small businesses, including local pubs, clubs, cafes and restaurants, which have faced difficult trading conditions due to COVID-19.

Rent relief for Council’s small and medium commercial and community tenants will be extended for a period of six months from 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021 with a further review of the program to be undertaken and reported to Council in February 2021.

The rent relief will be based on demonstrated COVID-19 related downturn in revenue and in the case of food premises, on COVID-19 related spatial restrictions.

Woollahra Council will also waive footpath dining fees until 30 June 2021, an additional 6 months of relief which follows a recent extension to 31 December 2020.

To further enhance Woollahra Council's capacity to support small businesses in the Woollahra local government area, a new Economic Development Officer role will be created to coordinate a range of initiatives until 31 December 2021. The financial assistance measures will be notified for 28 days before a final decision by Council on 28 September 2020.

The $5 million support package introduced in March included rent relief for 6 months for all small business tenants of Council-owned properties and for the same period, no fees charged to any small business in the local government area for health, hygiene, licensing and fire safety inspections, plus a waiver of all outdoor and footpath dining fees for a period of 6 months.

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