Sydneysiders are bracing themselves for a potential lockdown after a man and his wife tested positive for Covid-19 after visiting several venues in the eastern suburbs
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a series of restrictions for Greater Sydney from 5pm on Thursday until midnight on Monday morning after two mystery Covid-19 cases were discovered in the city.
The Premier, Minister for Health and Medical Research
Given the latest cases of community transmission and updated health advice from the Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant, COVID-19 restrictions will be temporarily tightened across Greater Sydney.
The following measures will be effective from midday today, 6 May 2021 (enforceable from 5pm) until 12.01am Monday, 10 May for the Greater Sydney region (including Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains):
Visitors to households will be limited to 20 guests – including children
Masks will be compulsory on public transport and in all public indoor venues, such as retail, theatres, hospitals, aged care facilities and for front-of-house hospitality staff (except in a hospitality venue when eating or drinking)
Published May 6, 2021
The NSW Government is reintroducing 20-person guest limits and compulsory mask-wearing indoors after a Sydney man tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
The new restrictions will be enforced from 5 PM on Thursday until midnight on Monday, May 10, and will apply across Greater Sydney, the Central coast and the Illawarra. However, Premier
Gladys Berejiklian has asked people to start following the rules immediately, if possible.
“Public transport, if you go to the supermarket, any indoor event, will require compulsory mask wearing, in addition to hospitality workers,” she told reporters on Thursday morning.
The full restrictions across the Greater Sydney region are as follows:
The three historical infections had arrived from Pakistan, India and the United States. Thirty-two people in New Zealand have been advised to isolate at home and continue to isolate until they get a negative result at the day-five test, after the green-zone at Brisbane Airport was breached by a person with Covid-19. So far, 22 of these people have returned a negative test. The risk from this event continues to be assessed as low, the ministry said. The three new cases were in people who travelled from the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. The government also announced on Wednesday there would be no change to the trans-Tasman bubble, after a Sydney man tested positive for Covid-19.