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NSW will need to spend another $4 billion in support payments if the lockdown continues through August as Premier Gladys Berejiklian warns restrictions may need to get âharderâ.
The budget deficit will likely double to $16 billion and a projected near-$500 million surplus in 2024-25 will evaporate.
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Health experts say NSW still has room to move on restrictions which would be unlikely to cause more major damage to the economy.
Suggestions included limiting all travel to just five kilometres and mandating masks outdoors.
The stateâs mass vaccination hubs will also soon offer the AstraZeneca vaccine for anyone as the national expert immunisation panel urged anyone in Greater Sydney to get whatever jab they could.
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