You're free to leave isolation on the seventh day, as long as you test negative on day six. But what if your test comes back positive? 9News
, as the Omicron variant spreads like a bushfire across Australia.
At some testing sites, you are urged to turn on their hazard lights or otherwise indicate you have returned a positive rapid antigen test.This means it will be a 14-day isolation period.What's the new definition of a close contact? "A household contact is someone who lives with a case or has spent more than four hours with them in a house, accommodation or care facility setting," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday.
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