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Sydney to go into full Covid lockdown for two weeks

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NZ Herald ,
Publish Date
Sat, 26 Jun 2021, 4:21PM

Sydney to go into full Covid lockdown for two weeks

Author
NZ Herald ,
Publish Date
Sat, 26 Jun 2021, 4:21PM

Sydney will go into full lockdown from 6pm tonight for two weeks.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian made the announcement this afternoon after NSW recorded 29 new community Covid infections earlier today - the biggest rise in daily cases since the latest outbreak began. Seventeen of those cases were announced yesterday.

Cases were identified beyond the city's four locked-down council areas: Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and City of Sydney.

Berejiklian said from tonight, all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into lockdown until midnight, Friday July 9.

This means residents will only be able to leave to their homes for four reasons:
– Work or education which must be done outside the home
– To seek medical attention
– Outdoor exercise
– Care or compassionate grounds

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Photo / News Corp Australia

Speaking to the media on Saturday morning, Berejiklian stressed that NSW may need to extend restrictions in light of today's news.

"I will confirm that I will be holding a crisis cabinet meeting today to discuss the health advice with my colleagues and senior public servants so that we can advise the community if we need to take any further action.

"I am putting everybody on notice that we may need to extend that during the course of the day or tomorrow.

"Some of [the new] cases may have been exposed for a number of days without the person knowing they had the virus, and that where our concern is. And that's what we will be looking at in the next few hours."

NSW's total outbreak is at 82 infections.

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