Acting sports minister Geoff Lee has reminded community clubs to follow social-distancing protocols after images emerged of bunched-up crowds.
Acting Minister for Sport Geoff Lee has issued a reminder to community sports clubs to adhere to social distancing after the weekend tossed up a number of concerning images.
Lee took the opportunity to reiterate players should maintain a distance of 1.5 metres between one another wherever possible."All NSW sports clubs and organisations must ensure they adhere to strict COVID safety plans to keep their players and the wider community safe," he said. "Complacency will be the biggest enemy for our state so please make sure everyone is practising hand hygiene and keeping socially distant where possible.
"We are an industry that has been extremely affected by this COVID crisis with forced closure for over four months," she wrote in an email."Whilst we appreciate the concern for all, they need not worry and should direct there energies in other directions possibly supporting people rather than going to the media," she said.
Last week the Victorian government was forced to announce a six-week stage-three lockdown of metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire on the city's northern fringe due to a second wave of COVID-19 cases.
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