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RESTRICTIONS on access to local parks and playgrounds have been eased by the Derwent Valley Council in accordance with the State Government’s “Roadmap to Recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic. Coinciding with yesterday’s partial relaxing of emergency regulations around public gatherings, the council announced that its parks, playgrounds and public toilets
CORUMBENE Care, the Derwent Valley Council and Hydro Tasmania have today announced a partial reopening of facilities in line with the State Government’s “Roadmap to Recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic. In New Norfolk the council has reopened the Esplanade and Tynwald Park for exercise purposes. The playgrounds at both locations
MT FIELD remains out of reach of most Derwent Valley residents following today’s partial reopening of national park and reserves as the State Government starts to relax the social distancing rules that have so far stopped a widespread outbreak of coronavirus in Tasmania. From today, Tasmanians will be able to
Click image to enlarge. PLANS for a staged return to normal life following the coronavirus crisis have been released by the state government. Premier Peter Gutwein yesterday released the government’s Roadmap to Recovery, which he said would outline the process to rebuild a stronger Tasmania. “While I thank all Tasmanians
UPDATED: THERE have been four confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Derwent Valley municipality since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released yesterday by Public Health Services. No information was provided other than the bare numbers, and there is no indication of how many of the local
LOCAL IMPACTS OF PREVENTATIVE MEASURES TO STOP THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 IN THE DERWENT VALLEY (REGULARLY UPDATING): This list replaces the earlier version, now that some businesses and services are starting to re-open. Please send updates, additions and corrections to newnorfolknews@gmail.com. GREEN = open ORANGE = changed circumstances RED
Click image to enlarge. TWO new online activities are being offered by the Derwent Valley Youth Future Action Team (D’FAT), joining the two which were offered as replacement school holiday activities last month, supported by the Salvation Army. Starting next weekend is a new round of”The Gamer Zone”, an online
YOUR generous support for our fundraising activities recently enabled us make a number of donations, one of which was to Cystic Fibrosis Tasmania. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited, life-threatening condition for which there is currently no cure. In Tasmania, one in 20 people carry the CF gene which is
Click image to enlarge. THE State Government has introduced stricter self-isolation regulations as the state’s tally of coronavirus infections increases. As of today there has been a total of 69 cases, including one death. A number have fully recovered. The Director of Public Health today issued two directives tightening the
PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTION – ISOLATIONPublic Health Act 1997DIRECTION UNDER SECTION 16 I, MARK VEITCH, the Director of Public Health, in pursuance of section 16 of the Public Health Act 1997 (“the Act”), in order to manage the threat to public health posed by the notifiable disease known as COVID-19 (“the
PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTION – MASS GATHERINGS Public Health Act 1997DIRECTION UNDER SECTION 16 I, MARK VEITCH, the Director of Public Health, in pursuance of section 16 of the Public Health Act 1997 (“the Act”), in order to manage the threat to public health posed by the notifiable disease known as
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