Restrictions will be tightened even further across western Sydney as cases continue to rise amid the city’s current COVID-19 outbreak.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says people in the Cumberland and Blacktown local government areas will be subject to, meaning workers are not allowed to leave their local areas unless they are on the list of authorised workers.
What are the reasons people living in Fairfield, Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland and Blacktown can leave home and their LGAs? As a starting point, there are 16 reasonable excuses for Greater Sydney residents – including those in the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour – to leave home under the state’s health orders. They are:For the purposes of work if the person cannot work from the person’s place of residence.
Ms Berejiklian said “The numbers are not going in the direction we were hoping they would at this stage.“We also have to acknowledge that we need to contain the spread of the virus, and that is critical at this time.”
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