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Hunter Schools Closed due to Confirmed Covid-19 Case
August 5, 2021
Parents with children at Maitland Christian School have been advised to collect their children immediately.
The school has been made non-operational effective immediately so contact tracing and cleaning can get underway.
All staff and students are being asked to self isolate until receiving further advice from health authorities.
Any children already dropped off will be supervised until collected.
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The Hunter remains on high alert for COVID-19, with a new local venue of concern identified and a Lake Macquarie school closed for deep cleaning.
Anyone who visited Target at Glendale between 8:30am and 1:30pm on Sunday, August 1st must immediately get tested and isolate after a staff member tested positive to the virus.
Three schools across the Central Coast and Hunter region in New South Wales remain shut as residents prepare to enter a snap lockdown.
The NSW Government has announced a one-week lockdown for the Hunter and Upper Hunter region after five school students tested positive for COVID-19 .
The Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie lockdown will start from 5pm today and run until midnight, Thursday, August 12.
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NSW Health officials are investigating how the Delta variant was transmitted to the Hunter regions and Central Coast.
NSW health authorities believe the Newcastle/Hunter infections can be linked to a gathering at Blacksmiths Beach on Friday night.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has defended the state s lockdown measures as a record five deaths and 262 locally-acquired cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Thursday.