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Close this window25 August 2021
There are now 14,673 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in NSW reported since 16 June 2021. Click here for all the latest information relating to the NSW outbreak including case locations and alerts. Over the past two weeks to 22 August 2021 there have been 1124 locally acquired cases in the CESPHN region. The largest concentrations are in the following Local Government Areas (LGAs) Canterbury-Bankstown (455), Bayside (143) Georges River (124), Sydney (75), Strathfield (72), Randwick (60) and Inner West (58).
See here or check our website for information on the latest testing locations and new community pop up vaccination locations.
In the last week, CESPHN estimates an additional 94,221 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered to people living in the CESPHN region. Of these additional doses, 36 per cent were AstraZeneca vaccines and 64 per cent were Pfizer vaccines.
You can view vaccination uptake by postcode here.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) packages including surgical and N95/P2 masks, gloves, gowns and goggles will be made available for community pharmacies and those GPs who continue to see their patients within their practices. PPE guidelines can be found here.
CESPHN will continue to distribute these supplies. To order PPE for your practice or pharmacy click here.
NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, distributed a letter to GPs on 24 August. Click here to read the full letter.The key points include:
People aged 16-39 years who live in a LGA of concern (Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Strathfield and Penrith) are now eligible to book a priority appointment for the Pfizer vaccine.
Sydney Local Health District has a COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment Finder for both the below groups:
Click here to find an appointment now.
All Aboriginal people 12 years and over are eligibleand a priority population for COVID-19 vaccination, yet the current vaccination rate among Aboriginal people in NSW is significantly lower than non-Aboriginal people. Outbreaks affecting Aboriginal communities across NSW have increased the urgency for vaccination.NSW Health has provided a few practical steps you can take to encourage and increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among Aboriginal people in your community. Click here to learn more.
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CESPHN is pleased to offer general practices and community pharmacies the opportunity to have a specialised one-on-one consultation session with an experienced primary care infection control educator.This consult will enable your practice/pharmacy to:
Sessions will be via ‘Zoom’ and will be up to 50 minutes in duration and can be recorded for later use. The aim of these sessions is to support practices and community pharmacies to ensure they have the strongest infection procedures in place, and provide tips for improvement where needed.
If you would like more information or would like to book a consultation, please email your interest to coronavirus@cesphn.com.au and in the subject line write: “Yes I would like infection control advice”.
Central and Eastern Sydney PHN is offering registered nurses working in general practice and residential aged care facilities (RACF) within the CESPHN region the opportunity to apply for a scholarship to complete studies to become a qualified authorised nurse immuniser in NSW and administer vaccinations independent of a medical officer. To book your place before the closing deadline, visit our website.
We are maintaining a register of GPs, pharmacists, nurses and other allied health professionals who are available to work shifts in COVID vaccination clinics. Please complete this form if you are interested. Thank you to all those of you have already registered.
The Department of Health has issued a COVID-19 vaccination – Disability Provider Alert 23 August 2021. This provider alert along with other resources and information about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is available from a dedicated web page for disability service providers on the Department of Health website. The Department of Health will continue to update the following webpage Information for people with disability about COVID-19 vaccines with any new advice on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
The NSW Government website has a new page:Find the facts about COVID-19, which provides data on COVID-19 cases, testing and vaccination and includes maps showing case numbers and vaccination rates based on location.
All resources are available in a range of languages.
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