If your teenager is sick, keep them at home and test for COVID-19 with a rapid antigen test.

Secondary school children (12 to 17 years) If the doctor recommends a rapid antigen test, follow the NSW Health advice on getting tested for COVID-19.

For primary school-aged children with symptoms of COVID-19, contact your doctor.

In an emergency, please call Triple Zero (000) or go to your closest emergency department.

If your child has symptoms like a runny nose, fever, cough or sore throat, call your GP (doctor).

If your child is sick, keep them at home.

Day care and preschool aged children (0 to 4 years) If you have school-aged children, visit the Department of Education website and see the advice for families. See What COVID-19 test should I do? for more COVID-19 testing information. If you have COVID-19 and do not have symptoms, you can still infect other people and they could get sick.īy getting tested and staying at home if you test positive, you can help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the community. If you have COVID-19 but do not have any symptoms, this is called 'asymptomatic'. The amount of time between exposure to the virus and the first appearance of symptoms is usually 5 to 6 days, although it may range from 2 to 14 days.

by contact with contaminated hands, surfaces or objects.

through contaminated droplets spread by coughing or sneezing.How COVID-19 is spreadĬOVID-19 is a human coronavirus that spreads from an infected person to other people in close contact: In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia with severe acute respiratory distress. shortness of breath (difficulty breathing).

Normal covid symptoms timeline