Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update

COVID-19 Testing in NSW

See –National Guidelines for Public Health Units

Please note 

• We are not equipped to carry out testing on suspected coronavirus patients at this practice.
• Testing options
  • Private pathology labs available for testing
  • COVID-19 clinics or drive through clinics available across the state
  • Self-collection

Please call and speak to a doctor for further advice.

Testing Criteria

NSW Health recommends that anyone with respiratory symptoms, loss of sense of smell or taste, or unexplained fever should be tested for COVID-19.

This is especially important for:

• anyone who lives or works in a high risk setting, including healthcare facilities, aged care and other residential facilities, schools, prisons, and other closed settings
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• people who are close contacts of a confirmed case
• people who have returned from overseas in the last 14 days
• anyone admitted to hospital

How to get a COVID-19 test if you have symptoms

Mild symptoms:

• Attend a drive-through clinic or testing site (no appointment or referral needed for some clinics).
• Or call us on 02 9688 6678 and speak to a doctor for a referral.

Moderate symptoms or needing a clinical assessment:

• Attend a Respiratory Clinic or a hospital for assessment and testing.
• If you have had a negative COVID19 test for the current illness, call and speak to a doctor for further advice.

Severe symptoms:

• Present to a hospital.

Asymptomatic people do not require testing, except in special circumstances, e.g. in certain high risk outbreak settings or returned travellers. For further advice, please see the COVID-19 control guideline for public health units or call the public health unit on 1300 066 055.

Self-isolation

Self-isolation at home for 14 days is required for:

• Close contacts of confirmed cases
• Suspected cases
• People arriving from geographical areas of risk (for example, overseas, Victoria)​
• Confirmed cases who do not require hospitalisation.

COVID-19 Symptom Checker

Patients who do not fulfill the criterion for testing, please:

• self-isolate until 24 hours after symptoms resolve
• self-monitor using the healthdirect Coronavirus (COVID-19) Symptom Checker
• call GP if any changes to condition.

Please check these websites for up to date information:

• The Department of Health
• Frequently asked questions
• NSW Health