To 4pm 27 March, 350 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Northern NSW Local Health District, including 79 positive PCR tests and 271 positive rapid antigen tests (RAT)**.
Confirmed tests by LGA (PCR and RAT included):
- Ballina 62
- Byron 47
- Clarence Valley 46
- Kyogle 8
- Lismore 68
- Richmond Valley 36
- Tweed 83
There are 18 COVID-19 positive patients in hospital in Northern NSW, with five in ICU.
With cases and hospitalisations increasing, we urge people to take particular care to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Everyone is urged to take simple precautions to protect each other, such as:
- use a mask in indoor settings where you cannot maintain a safe physical distance from others, and
- get your booster vaccine
- get a test and isolate immediately if you have any COVID symptoms,
- clean your hands regularly.
If you have even mild symptoms, or have had known contact with a COVID-19 case, to please get tested as soon as you can.
COVID-19 testing clinics are open seven days a week at Lismore Base Hospital, Byron Central Hospital, North Street Grafton and The Tweed Hospital.
If you are unable to attend a testing clinic, please take a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and isolate while awaiting your result.
If you test positive using a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT), please register your result with Service NSW.
COVID-19 boosters are available at vaccination clinics throughout the region. If you are eligible for a booster, please book without delay through the COVID-19 vaccine clinic finder.
NSW Health vaccination clinics are now administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children aged five to 11 years old. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to make a booking for vaccination at any NSW Health vaccination clinic, at a general practitioner, or a community pharmacy.
Case data and other COVID-19 information is available on the NSW Government website.
** Please note these RAT results may be from within the previous seven days, and there may be some cases included in these numbers where people have reported positive RATs on multiple days and/or where people have also had a positive PCR test during the same reporting period.