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CURRENT NSW Restrictions:
Stay-at-home orders extended for all of Greater Sydney from tonight
The NSW Government has extended current stay-at-home orders across all of Greater Sydney from 6pm today to protect the community from the evolving COVID-19 outbreak.
Following updated health advice from the Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant about the growing risk to the community, the stay-at-home orders will apply to all people in Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong, Shellharbour until 11.59pm on Friday July 9.
Everyone in Greater Sydney must stay at home unless it is for an essential reason.
The reasons you may leave your home include:
- Shopping for food or other essential goods and services
- Medical care or compassionate needs (people can leave home to have a COVID-19 vaccination unless you have been identified as a close contact)
- Exercise outdoors in groups of 10 or fewer, and
- Essential work, or education, where you cannot work or study from home.
Community sport will not be permitted during this period. Weddings will not be permitted from 11.59pm on Sunday June 27. Funerals will be limited to one person per four square metres with a cap of 100 people and masks must be worn indoors.
In all other parts of NSW, the following restrictions will apply:
- People who have been in the Greater Sydney region (including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong) on or after June 21 should follow the stay-at-home orders for a period of 14 days after they left Greater Sydney
- Visitors to households will be limited to five guests including children
- Masks will be compulsory in all indoor non-residential settings, including workplaces, and at organised outdoor events
- Drinking while standing at indoor venues will not be allowed
- Singing by audiences and choirs at indoor venues or by congregants at indoor places of worship will not be allowed
- Dancing will not be allowed at indoor hospitality venues or nightclubs, however, dancing is allowed at weddings for the wedding party only (no more than 20 people)
- Dance and gym classes limited to 20 per class (masks must be worn)
- The one person per four square metre rule will be re-introduced for all indoor and outdoor settings, including weddings and funerals, and
- Outdoor seated, ticketed events will be limited to 50 per cent seated capacity.
People across NSW should only enter Greater Sydney for essential purposes.
NSW Health is urging the community to come forward for testing in greater numbers as high testing numbers are vital in detecting cases of COVID-19 in order to prevent further transmission.
If you are experiencing even the mildest symptoms, such as headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat or runny nose, please come forward immediately for testing, then follow NSW Health advice.
The community is also being urged to use QR codes to check into venues to assist contact tracing and to wear masks when required to reduce the risk of transmission.
Additional guidance and support on the use and wearing of face masks is available at the site below.
For more information about COVID-19 restrictions, go to the following link
www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/rules/what-you-can-do-nsw
Place of work
The new Public Health Order provides that an employer must allow an employee to work at the employee’s place of residence if it is reasonably practicable to do so.
QR codes
The community is urged to use QR codes to check into venues to assist contact tracing and reduce the risk of transmission.
For more details click here: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/rules/what-you-can-do-nsw
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