{"id":14065,"date":"2022-12-05T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/important-covid-19-update-14-april\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:38:37","slug":"important-covid-19-update-14-april","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/important-covid-19-update-14-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Important COVID-19 Update: 14 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update on the further relaxation of public health measures.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to advise that as announced yesterday by the Premier, COVID-19 restrictions in Western Australia have now been further relaxed. This is very positive news, and shows that WA is effectively managing COVID-19 in the community. As always, I thank the Curtin community for the way it has come together to respond to the many challenges of the pandemic and I look forward to seeing our campuses even more vibrant than they are now.<\/p>\n<p>The changes which will impact on Curtin are detailed below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Close contact definition changed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Close contacts are now only household members or intimate partners of a person with COVID-19, or people who have had extended contact with someone with COVID-19 in a residential setting.<\/p>\n<p>This means that (apart from people in our residential accommodation), people cannot become a close contact while on our Western Australian campuses. Despite this new definition, we still encourage everyone to maintain 1.5 metres of physical distancing wherever possible and your usual hygiene measures.<\/p>\n<p>Students are asked to continue to advise of any positive cases by using <a href=\"https:\/\/students.connect.curtin.edu.au\/app\/reportcovid\">the webform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contact registration (QR codes or manual registers) are now only required for hospital visitors. Curtin venues will remove all QR code signs.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the changes announced yesterday is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wa.gov.au\/government\/announcements\/public-health-and-social-measures-ease-1201am-thursday-14-april#close-contacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Government website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Kilburn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Provost and Curtin Critical Incident Team Leader \u2013 COVID-19 Response<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the changes to contact registers at Curtin venues and the new definition of close contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":20543,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[137],"class_list":["post-14065","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-important"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image4.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Nikita","last_name":"Osckar","display_name":"Nikita Osckar"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 02:35:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/14065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/14065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=14065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}