NZ Covid-19 Health Update
Travel
Platform 4 Group is continuing to monitor developments with the Covid-19 virus to ensure that we keep you and our clients and visitors as safe as possible.
The New Zealand Government has added countries to their Do No Travel, Re-Consider Your need to Travel and Exercise a High Degree of Caution advice list.
Travel Restrictions/Quarantine
If you have returned/transited from any of the high-risk countries below in the last 14 days, you must notify your manager, not attend any of our client’s sites and isolate yourselves for 14 days after departure date from the country.
Mainland China (Level 4 Do Not Travel)
South Korea
Northern Italy
Notify your manager and Self-monitoring for symptoms is required if you have returned from the countries listed below in the last 14 days:
Italy (other than northern Italy)
Japan
Hong Kong
Singapore
Thailand
Indonesia
If you have come into known contact with a proven or suspected case of Covid-19 then we require you to notify your manager and self-isolate for 14 days
Signs and Symptoms
Signs and symptoms, you may have Covid-19 include
Fever
Flu like symptoms such as a dry cough, sore throat, fatigue.
Additional symptoms such as runny nose or gastric and diarrhea associated with the above symptoms may be present.
How it Spreads
Covid-19 is most likely spread through
Close contact with someone who has the virus
Contact with droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze
Touching objects (doorknobs, desks, computers, steering wheels) that have cough or sneeze droplets from an infected person and then touching your mouth or face.
How to Prevent Catching or Infecting Covid-19
Wash your hands often with soap and hot water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, particularly after touching objects that others have touched who may have the disease
Using a tissue and covering your mouth with your elbow when you cough or sneeze
Avoid touching other people who may have the disease
Avoid shaking hands or greeting people with a hug or hongi
What to Do If you Think You May Have Covid-19 or Feel Unwell
Advise your manager immediately
Seek medical attention-ring ahead to your doctor, medical centre or hospital emergency department
Wear a mask until your symptoms have been assessed
Self- quarantine until your symptoms have been assessed.
You can find more information at these sites
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus
