{"id":5436,"date":"2020-03-12T04:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2020-03-12T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:08:25","slug":"novel-coronavirus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/novel-coronavirus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The safety of our communities, customers and staff is our top priority.<\/h3>\n<p>City of Newcastle is following advise from the NSW Government on the recent outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). We take advice on all public health matters from the state and federal health departments.<br \/>\nOur staff are monitoring developments daily and assessing any potential impact on city services and events.<br \/>\nWe aim to maintain our current level of service to residents and businesses during this period.<br \/>\nAll staff have been reminded to practice good hygiene by covering coughs and sneezes, washing their hands thoroughly with soap and water, and using alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Council is committed to our community&#8217;s safety and whilst the risk is currently very low, we ask residents to take precautions.<\/p>\n<h3>Feeling unwell?<\/h3>\n<p>If you develop a fever, a cough, sore throat or shortness of breath within\u00a014 days of overseas travel, seek medical attention.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Visit their website in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdirect.gov.au\/australian-health-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call your GP\u200b<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Visit their website in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emergencywait.health.nsw.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the Emergency Department<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"tel:1800022222\">Call Healthdirect 1800 022 222<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information is available on the\u00a0<a title=\"Visit their website in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/Infectious\/diseases\/Pages\/coronavirus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSW Health website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Visit their website in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nsw.gov.au\/coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The safety of our communities, customers and staff is our top priority. City of Newcastle is following advise from the NSW Government on the recent outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). We take advice on all public health matters from the state and federal health departments. Our staff are monitoring developments daily and assessing any potential &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/novel-coronavirus-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Novel Coronavirus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}