Health officials were conducting interviews relating to a COVID case in a Gladstone Avenue apartment block when fire broke out last week.
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Last Monday 300 residents fled their apartment complex after a fire started in a fourth-floor unit.
An Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District spokeswoman said Public Health Unit staff were carrying out phone interviews relating to a positive COVID case in the complex at the time.
"In this case, interviews were being undertaken and interrupted by a fire emergency," she said.
"Those considered a potential case were provided the advice by the Public Health Unit as to the safest protocols for evacuation and assembly outdoors."
The spokeswoman said residents identified as close or casual contacts had received specific advice about whether they need to be tested and isolate or monitor for symptoms.
"General public health advice is provided to others living in the building who are not considered a contact," she said.
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I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
