NSW Health offers their best advice for a COVID-safe Halloween

If you’re planning on hitting the streets this Halloween to go trick or treating with your family and friends NSW Health has served up their best tips to celebrate in a COVID-safe way.

Spooky and safe

If you’re planning to celebrate Halloween remember to help stop the spread of COVID you still need to:

Keep 1.5 metres apart
Practise good hand hygiene
Stay home and get tested immediately if unwell
Wear a face mask if unable to physically distance

COVID-safe tips if you plan to hand out treats

NSW Health recommends ditching the communal lolly bowl and opting for a socially distant Halloween instead. Consider a treat tree or hanging treats from your fence so trick or treaters can serve themselves.

Remember:

If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 over Halloween, stay home, don’t receive Halloween visitors and get tested immediately
If you are self-isolating, don’t answer the door to trick-or-treaters
Make it a front-yard event, not at the front-door of your house. Keep your celebrations outdoors and get creative in decorating the front yard
Only hand out individually wrapped treats
Don’t use communal lolly bowls. Consider other ways of distributing treats such as hanging them individually on your fence, front gate or up your driveway
Offer hand sanitiser at your front gate or fence
You may wish to avoid people knocking on your door by putting up a sign that says “We are home but due to COVID-19, we are distancing. Please take one, Happy Halloween”
Remember, you can only have 20 people on your property at one time.

COVID-safe tips if you plan to trick-or-treat

NSW Health recommends:

If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 this Halloween, stay home and give trick-or-treating a miss this year. Get tested immediately
Keep it local by staying in your suburb rather than going to well-known “treat streets” that attract crowds
Celebrate outside, don’t go to people’s front door
Stay in small household groups (for example a supervising adult and children from the same household) rather than groups of young people together. Remember, no more than 30 people can gather outside in a public place
Stay 1.5 meters away from people you don’t live with
Only take treats that are individually wrapped
Use a disposable bag to collect your treats, and dispose of it appropriately afterwards
Don’t share your treats with others from different households
Don’t share costumes or costume face masks
Carry hand sanitiser with you and use it often, especially after touching common surfaces.

Happy Halloween!

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