Additional restrictions will also be put in place for other venues. Gym classes will be restricted to 30 people and places of worship, weddings and funerals to 100 attendees, all subject to the four square metre rule.
Outdoor performances and protests have been capped at 500 attendees and outdoor seated events at 2000 as part of the changes, the Premier said.
The new rules apply to Greater Sydney, including Wollongong, the Central Coast and Blue Mountains.
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NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has provided a breakdown of the seven new local cases recorded in the state on Saturday.
Five of the cases are linked to the Berala cluster identified yesterday. There are now six cases linked to the initial infection in a man in his 40s: his five household contacts and a co-worker.
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Residents of the southern part of the northern beaches will be released from lockdown at midnight on Saturday and come under the broader restrictions that apply to Greater Sydney, while those in the northern zone will need to wait another week.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the advice from NSW Health was that the risk of transmission in the southern region had “dissipated”.
“There is a greater risk at this stage of community transmission in parts of western Sydney, which we are trying to get on top of, than there is in that southern section of the northern beaches,” Ms Berejiklian said.
There are now Covid-19 cases linked to a Melbourne restaurant (file picture).
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At the stroke of midnight, police vehicles joined the ends of queues at each border checkpoint to mark the midnight closure. Travellers were told earlier on Friday they would need to be in line before 11:59pm in order to make it home. At midnight, regardless of how long the queue is, we ll have a police car go to the end of that queue, Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent said earlier. If you are there by midnight, regardless of whether you re actually processed, you re included as arriving prior to midnight.
Victoria-NSW border shuts, with any remaining travellers to be turned away or required to quarantine
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There were long queues of cars on Thursday night as Victorians abandoned New South Wales holiday plans to return home.
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Victorians in New South Wales raced to get back into the state before the hard border closure came into effect overnight, as the coronavirus cluster linked to a Melbourne restaurant rises to 10 cases.
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Victoria closed its border to New South Wales from 11:59pm on Friday
Contact tracers believe it is likely Victoria s cluster is linked to the New South Wales outbreak