Important COVID-19 message for staff and students of Al Taqwa College
The following is the official government advice for people affected by those with any link to Al Taqwa College on July, 28, 29 or 30:
Testing & Isolating
• If you work, visited or go to school at Al Taqwa College – on July 28, 29 or 30 – you must get tested for COVID-19, go home and stay in quarantine for 14 days.
• If you live in the same house as someone who worked, visited or is a student at Al Taqwa College on these dates, you must also get tested and quarantine for 14 days.
• That means you cannot leave the house for work and to go shopping – and you cannot have visitors in the home for any reason.
• Anyone in the community with any symptoms - chills, fever, sore throat, runny nose, shortness of breath, or loss of smell or taste – please also get isolate immediately and get tested.
• There are new exposure sites on the Victorian Government website – please check them regularly on coronavirus.vic.gov.au and if you have been to any of the locations, you must follow the health advice.
• There are exposure sites in Newport, Altona North, West Footscray, Caroline Springs, Spotswood, Truganina and Tarraville.
• Remember, if you are not required to isolate and are allowed to leave your house, you must wear a mask – indoors and outdoors, all the time.
• If you are not required to isolate and are allowed to leave your house, you must check-in with a QR Code at every location you visit, everywhere, every time.
Support
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/financial-and-other-support-coronavirus-covid-19
• $450 Test Isolation Payment if you have taken a coronavirus test and have no other income while you isolate and await your result.
• $1,500 Pandemic Disaster Leave Payment if you have been instructed by DH to quarantine or self-isolate.
• Food relief packages if you need to isolate or quarantine you may be supported with a relief package delivered by the Australian Red Cross. Relief packages contain basic essential food and personal care items to last a four-person household for two weeks.
• No Interest Loans scheme of up to $3,000 to support low-income households with the costs of rent and utilities, repayable over 24 months.