A ban on leaving certain suburbs for work, many retail businesses ordered to shut and stricter work-from-home guidelines — here's what you need to know about the changes to Greater Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown.
A swathe of new COVID-19 restrictions are being introduced in NSW this weekend, in a bid to combat a virus outbreak that has lasted longer than a month.
Until now, authorities had encouraged everyone in Greater Sydney and its surrounds to work from home if they could, but the definition of who was an essential worker was left up to employees and businesses to decide. While the COVID-19 outbreak may have started in Sydney's eastern suburbs, it's now taken hold in those areas, and authorities are concerned about the mounting number of cases there.Under the new rules, the only people who will be able to leave those areas for work are essential health and emergency services workers.Even then, people who are exempt and able to leave the suburbs must get COVID-19 tests every three days, regardless of whether they have symptoms.
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