Will restrictions ease in NSW?
New South Wales has now gone nine days with no community transmission of COVID-19, and residents are eagerly awaiting to find out if restrictions will ease.
Gladys Berejiklian has spoken to News Breakfast, and has been asked if she will ease some restrictions.
"Well, look, we'll be having those discussions and getting the advice today. I'm hoping to make a announcement by the end of the week.
"We're doing more. There's more contagious strains of the virus coming into Australia. In New South Wales our policy always is don't keep restrictions or burden our citizens a day longer than you need to. I'm hoping to have confirmation of advice that allows us to announce that later this week.
What type of restrictions will be eased first?
"You look at what we imposed on our citizens since the Northern Beaches cluster. I think perhaps people will looking forward to welcoming more
people into their homes, and a mask policy moving forward. There's a number of areas looking forward."The hospitality sector also wants certainty moving forward. We're looking forward to making the announcements later. I get advice on a daily basis from the health experts and today and tomorrow we'll be having longer conversations about what it means.
Speaking of masks, would you expect to keep masks mandatory in places like public transport?
"They're the conversations we'll have. There could be some settings where we do think it should be an ongoing way of doing things, a way of living. In other settings we may ease off and say we remembered you do this, but you don't have to.
"The important message is on public transport, and we're encouraging people to go back to work in a COVID-safe way. We do want people to catch public transport ... because jobs and focusing on the economy is critical for us this year. I think people will feel safer if there's masks on public transport. Those are the conversations we'll be having.
We've been reporting of news of fragments of the virus being found in sewage in south-western Sydney. How concerned should residents be in those areas?
"We're lucky in New South Wales we're able to have access to that technology. In other parts of the world it isn't an effective way of capturing the virus when there's too much of it around.
"Sometimes it could be old fragments of the virus. You may have had the virus some weeks or months ago. Other times it could be a warning there's undetected strains. The health experts always say to the public when there is detection of the virus in sewage, come forward and get tested if you live in those suburbs, if you have the mildest symptoms, come forward and get tested.
"So, they're important messages. Important tools our health experts are able to use. It's part of a number of things we present to the public to encourage them to get tested, but also to base it on the science and evidence we're finding."
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