Northern NSW Local Health District reports that to 4pm yesterday, 31 March, there were 577 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the District, including 70 positive PCR tests and 507 positive rapid antigen tests (RAT)**.
Confirmed tests by LGA (PCR and RAT included):
o Ballina 77
o Byron 82
o Clarence Valley 95
o Kyogle 11
o Lismore 96
o Richmond Valley 42
o Tenterfield 1
o Tweed 173
There are 24 COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW, with two of these in ICU.
Everyone is urged to take simple precautions to protect each other, such as:
• use a mask in indoor settings where you cannot maintain a safe physical distance from others, and
• get your booster vaccine
• get a test and isolate immediately if you have any COVID symptoms,
• clean your hands regularly.
If you have even mild symptoms or have had known contact with a COVID-19 case, to please get tested as soon as you can.
COVID-19 testing clinics are open seven days a week at Lismore Base Hospital, Byron Central Hospital, North Street Grafton and The Tweed Hospital.
If you are unable to attend a testing clinic, please take a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and isolate while awaiting your result.
If you test positive using a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT), please register your result with Service NSW.
** Please note these RAT results may be from within the previous seven days, and there may be some cases included in these numbers where people have reported positive RATs on multiple days and/or where people have also had a positive PCR test during the same reporting period.
Case data and other COVID-19 information is available on the NSW Government website.
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