New Roadmaps And Self-Isolation Requirements

Roadmap
(from 80% vaccination)

Roadmap
(from 8 November 2021)

Roadmap
(from 95% vaccination or 15 December 2021, whichever earlier)

Masks and QR codes

• Masks required for all staff and customers in all indoor settings including on public transport, planes and in airports (except children under the age of 12).

• Masks no longer required in office buildings (unvaccinated people must still wear a mask in the office).

• Masks no longer required in outdoor settings (except for front-of-house hospitality staff).

• COVID Safe check-ins and proof of vaccination required for staff and customers.

• Masks required for all staff and customers in all indoor settings including on public transport, planes and in airports (except children under the age of 12).

• Masks not required in office buildings (except for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Masks not required in outdoor settings (except for front-of-house hospitality staff).

• COVID-19 Safe check-ins and proof of vaccination required for staff and customers.

• Masks required only for public transport, planes and airports, and indoor front-of-house hospitality staff.

• Masks no longer required in outdoor settings (including for front-of-house hospitality staff).

• Proof of vaccination no longer required by Public Health Order.

Shopping

• Non-critical retail open with density limits (people who are not fully vaccinated can only access non-critical retail via Click & Collect).

• Non-critical retail remains open with density limits (people who are not fully vaccinated can only access non-critical retail via Click & Collect).

• Non-critical retail reopens to all, density limits apply.

Working from Home

• Employers allow staff to continue to work from home, if reasonably practicable.

• Employers require staff who are not fully vaccinated to work from home, if reasonably practicable.

• Employers allow staff to continue to work from home, if reasonably practicable.

• Employers require staff who are not fully vaccinated to work from home, if reasonably practicable.

• Employers allow staff to work from home at their discretion.

International Travel

• Nil

• International travellers who are fully vaccinated no longer need to quarantine on arrival. They must do a PCR test, be recognised as fully vaccinated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and have their vaccination status certified by the Commonwealth.

• International travellers who are not fully vaccinated still need to quarantine on arrival for 14 days. Limit on number of arrivals will apply.

• No change.

Schools

• Schools open with Level 3 or Level 3 plus COVID-19 safety measure

• Students already returned to face-to-face learning.

• No change.

Travel and transport

• Travel for holidays and recreational visits including day trips between Greater Sydney (including Central Coast, Wollongong, Shellharbour and Blue Mountains) and regional NSW permitted from 1 November (not permitted for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Carpooling permitted (restrictions remain for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Caravan parks and camping grounds open (including people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Travel holidays, including day trips, between Greater Sydney and regional NSW permitted (except for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Carpooling permitted (members of your household only for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Caravan parks and camping grounds remain open (including for people who are not fully vaccinated).

• Travel between Greater Sydney and regional NSW permitted for all.

• Carpooling permitted for all.

• Caravan parks and camping grounds remain open (including for people who are not fully vaccinated).

Events and entertainment

• Information and education facilities (including art galleries, museums and libraries) reopen with density limits.

• COVID safe outdoor gatherings permitted for up to 200 people.

• Controlled outdoor public gatherings (for example – fenced, seated ticketed) permitted for up to 3000 people with density limit.

• No person limit for information and education facilities (including art galleries, museums and libraries), density limits still apply.

• No person limit for outdoor public gatherings and recreation (COVID-19 Safety Plans required if over 1000 people attend).

• No person limit for information and education facilities (including art galleries, museums and libraries), density limits still apply.

• No person limit for outdoor public gatherings and recreation (COVID-19 Safety Plans required if over 1000 people attend).

Vaccination status

Confirmed cases
(i.e. you have tested positive)
 

Close contacts
(i.e. you are notified as being in contact with a confirmed case)
 

Fully vaccinated
(2 doses completed at least 14 days before you last had contact with a COVID-19 case)
 
 

Get tested if you have any symptoms. If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you must immediately:
 

1. self-isolate for at least 14 days in your home until medically cleared. A medical practitioner or registered nurse will contact you at the end of your isolation period to confirm if you can be released from isolation and provide you with a medical clearance notice. Please see Release and recovery for more advice.

2. tell the following people that you have tested positive for COVID-19:

(a)  people staying at your house;
(b)  friends and other people you have met socially where you spent 15 minutes or more in an indoor environment without a mask:

• from 2 days before you got sick until now, or

• if you had no symptoms, from 2 days before your test until now.

(c)  your manager at work
(d)  the head of the education facility you attend or relevant staff member.
 

• Self-isolate for 7 days from the date you last had contact with the COVID-19 positive person.

• Get tested immediately and again on day 6.

• Only leave self-isolation after 7 days if you receive a negative result from the test on day 6 and have no COVID-19 symptoms.

• For the following 7 days, work from home if you can and do not attend a high-risk setting (healthcare, aged care, disability care, early childhood centres, primary school and correctional facilities) even if it is your place of work.

Not fully vaccinated
(0 or 1 dose or 2 doses completed less than 14 days since you last had contact with a COVID-19 case)
 
 

Same as above.
 

• Self-isolate for 14 days from the date you last had contact with the COVID-19 positive person

• Get tested immediately, on day 6 and on day 12

• Only leave self-isolation after 14 days if you receive a negative result from the test on day 12 and have no COVID-19 symptoms.

Already had COVID-19 in the past 6 months
 

Same as above.

You will generally not be considered a close contact and you do not need to self-isolate or get a test unless you have symptoms.