Fencing has been erected around a south Sydney aged care home today as the facility enters a two-week lockdown after a nurse tested positive for COVID-19.
The staff member from The Palms Aged Care home in Kirrawee received a positive test result on Tuesday evening.
The home’s 65 residents and staff – who remain inside the locked down facility – have been tested for COVID-19. No positive test results have been recorded as yet.
The nursing home said all the elderly residents had been vaccinated but not all the staff.
“The South Eastern Sydney Local Health District informed us on Tuesday afternoon (July 20) that a member of our staff tested positive in a COVID-19 test,” The Palms facility said in a statement online today.
“The person is now in isolation, as are the other close contacts in her team and the 65 residents in the facility, as a safeguard.
“Testing of residents and staff will continue on a regular basis and the facility has undergone a deep clean and is in full lockdown, with staff wearing personal protective equipment to allow them to continue caring for the residents, all of whom are fully vaccinated.”
It said the NSW Department of Health was vaccinating the less than 10% of the 65 staff in the facility who remain unvaccinated.
