prospective residents can visit facilities accompanied by up to four other persons and.where visitors are not fully vaccinated, visits should occur in the resident’s room or outside, and common areas should be avoided.visitors are not required to be vaccinated, however, the Department of Health states that aged care visitors are “strongly encouraged” to be vaccinated and.

each resident is allowed up to five visitors per day.the former permitted reasons for visitation no longer apply.Under the new Directions, from 6 pm, 29 October 2021: The purpose of the Directions remain: “to make provision for restricted access to care facilities…balancing the need to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 against the broader responsibilities of care facilities to the physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing of their clients”. The Care Facilities Directions (No 48) ( Directions) support the removal of restrictions on visitation at residential aged care facilities. As part of the shift to baseline restrictions, restrictions on visitation in Victorian residential aged care facilities have relaxed. The focus of Phase C is to minimise serious illness, hospitalisations and fatalities as a result of COVID-19 with baseline restrictions. Last Friday 29 October, Victoria moved to Phase C of the National Plan: the Vaccination Consolidation Phase.

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