Premier GladysB has flagged new infrastructure projects and eased restrictions around large events as she seeks to maintain a COVIDSafe but forward-looking outlook for NSW.
|Premier Gladys Berejiklian has flagged new infrastructure projects and eased restrictions around large events as she seeks to maintain a COVIDSafe but forward-looking outlook for NSW. The Premier flagged a new plan to build an ambulance station in the Sydney CBD in order to respond quickly to emergencies in the high-density area.
Ms Berejiklian also said she had asked a group of ministers and health officials to work together to “bring forward to the government, plans for major events in the next little while”. “We want to see, based on the health advice, what is possible in NSW and what is a COVIDSafe way of doing as much as we can,” she said. “We are thinking about positive and hopeful things, we are thinking about what we can achieve and how we can best manage living with the pandemic in a COVIDSafe way.
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