The funding will help workers who must self-isolate or care for someone else needing to quarantine for 14 days and do not receive JobKeeper or JobSeeker payments.
Under the scheme, workers who are identified to be in a COVID-19 cluster can also receive an upfront $300 “testing” payment while they self-isolate and await their coronavirus test results. “The last thing we want is for any South Australian to have to make a choice between putting food on the table and protecting the community from possible infection and a potential second wave,” Mr Wade said.Source:News Corp Australia
“We’ve seen interstate the serious consequences of individuals who have continued to work while showing symptoms of COVID-19 or awaiting test results – with data from Victoria indicating as many as nine out of 10 people who later tested positive for coronavirus were not self-isolating between the onset of symptoms and getting a test.
The LNP cut the penalty rates of all essential shift workers, gave themselves a pay rise and now this will ease the pain of pushing people into poverty.
State premiers really need to stop completing over who can piss away cash the best
But they have no cases 😂🤣
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