A medical “cavalry” is on its way to Cobar to help with a COVID outbreak at the Lilli-ane Brady Village aged care facility. The nursing home, owned and managed by Cobar Shire Council, went into lockdown last week after a number of residents and staff test-ed positive to COVID. As […]
Local schools have received their alloca-tion of rapid antigen tests (RATs) in time for students and teachers to return to school next week. Around 8.2 million kits have been distributed to more than 3,000 government and non-government schools and early childhood cen-tres across the state over the past week. The […]
While the NSW Health’s website is show-ing one positive COVID case listed for Co-bar, Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said the case was however de-tected in Mudgee. As of Monday night at 8pm, the Western NSW Local Health District reports Cobar has not yet recorded a positive COVID […]
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s an-nouncement that Pfizer vaccines would be redirected from rural areas to the city has been met with a mixed reaction locally. The Premier announced last week that Pfizer vaccines would be redirected from the alloca-tions to rural areas to support Year 12 students in the Greater […]
Plans for the complex distribution process and safe and secure storage of the COVID-19 vaccines across Australia are well in hand. DHL Supply Chain’s large scale ultra-cold storage infrastructure has been chosen by the Australian Government to keep safe Australia’s supply of 20 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses, which need to […]
Sullivan’s Mining and Hardware Cobar Branch is doing their bit to keep our community to remain COVID safe by donating hand sanitiser to local schools and community groups. Cobar branch manager Jamie Allen dropped off 10 cases of sanitiser to Cobar High School on Monday and followed it up with […]
Cobar residents will have access to a drive-through COVID-19 testing facility today with the Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) operating the service for four hours today at Ward Oval. Director of Public Health Priscilla Stanley said there are currently no known cases of COVID-19 in Cobar. “WNSWLHD has tested […]
The COVID-19 modified junior netball 2020 competition finished up on Friday with fun games and presentations held at the Ward Oval courts. All of the players in the NetSetGo age group were presented with medallions and certificates (as all are winners) and in addition four special ‘Commitment Certificates’ were awarded […]
Cobar’s annual Festival of the Miners Ghost (FOMG) is still more than two months away, however organisers have already made the decision to cancel this year’s event. Council’s tourism manager Demi Smith said the decision was made last week as the future looks uncertain due to COVID-19 restrictions. “It was […]
Residents in the nearby village of Murrin Bridge lined up for testing at a mobile COVID-19 testing station on Monday. The community of approximately 70 people, which is currently undergoing a 14 day lockdown period, were offered the testing following a visit by a person from a Melbourne hot spot […]
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