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Vaccine orders and deliveries over Christmas and New Year

All services were sent an email last week regarding Christmas-New Year vaccine deliveries. If your clinic will be closed or operating under different hours, please advise us so deliveries can be made accordingly. All orders placed by 10 December 2021 will be delivered as per the usual fortnightly ordering schedule.

Please contact NACCHO at covid19vaccine@naccho.org.au or the Department of Health at Indigenous.Ops@health.gov.au to advise of your vaccine ordering plans over this period as soon as possible.

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PPE guidance 

From Thursday 2 December 2021, the following local government areas (LGAs) have been determined by the Chief Health Officer to be ‘moderate risk’ for PPE usage:

• Balonne Shire.

The following LGAs and towns remain designated as moderate risk:

• Paroo Shire
• Bulloo Shire
• Scenic Rim Region
• Stanthorpe and Warwick in the Southern Downs Region
• Gold Coast City
• Texas
• Goondiwindi.

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Queensland COVID-19 cleaning rebate

The Queensland COVID-19 cleaning rebate supports small and medium businesses and not-for-profit organisations that have been listed as an exposure venue by Queensland Health.

It will help cover professional cleaning expenses by providing a rebate for cleaning costs incurred at exposure venues in Queensland.

A rebate amount of up to 80 per cent of the professional cleaning cost is available, capped at $10,000 per separate event where a business is identified as a site of potential COVID-19 transmission by Queensland Health.

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