Four Anglican Care residential aged care facilities in the Hunter have been locked down after staff and a visitor tested positive to COVID-19
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Anglican Bishop of Newcastle and president of Anglican Care Peter Stuart confirmed that the four centres were locked down after a staff member tested positive at three of the facilities while a visitor who had attended a fourth had also been confirmed as a positive case.
He said none of the residents or other staff were showing symptoms and resident vaccination rates for the third dose were high.
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"We are working closely with the State and Commonwealth authorities," Dr Stuart said.
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