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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

Close-contact students will stay home while term 1 rules remain for first fortnight

Students who are close contacts of COVID-19 cases will not be able to attend ACT public schools even if they are asymptomatic and test negative to the virus for at least the first two weeks of second term.

This is despite the territory winding back quarantine rules for household contacts from midnight Tuesday.

Students will also be required to wear masks even though ACT Health will end its schools mask mandate.

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