Residents in the Penrith area will be subject to stricter restrictions on their movement after NSW recorded 262 new local cases of Covid and one new death today. Read our Sunday blog here.
NSW has reported 262 new locally-acquired cases of Covid-19 and an unvaccinated woman in her 80s has died.
The woman was a resident of the Wyoming Nursing Home in Summer Hill, in Sydney’s inner west, and she died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Twelve suburbs in the Penrith area will now be subjected to tighter restrictions from 5pm on Sunday amid a spike in new cases.
The Penrith suburbs subjected to harsher restrictions are: Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair, and St Mary’s.
Residents in those 12 suburbs must stay in their local government area and can only leave for work if they are an essential worker.
They may only leave home for food and other goods and services and exercise within 5km from home with only one person leaving the house at a time.
“You cannot travel to other areas of work outside those areas unless you are an authorised worker,” said NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty.
“Masks must be worn whenever you are outdoors, except in a common outdoor area of a backyard, apartment, for example.
“And masks do not have to be worn while you are in a car with other members of your family.”
Sundays cases came from 95,000 tests. At least 50 of the new cases were active in the community while infectious.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 4.4 million vaccine doses have now been administered.
“NSW has now made sure that there are 4.4 million jabs in arms. That is positive. We are doing really well in terms of increasing the number of people getting vaccinated every day and can I urge everybody who has not had at least one dose of vaccine to come forward and get vaccinated,” she said.
Ms Berejiklian said that while vaccination is not mandatory it would allow people to get back to work.
“I urge people now to come forward and get vaccinated, especially if you are in a job which traditionally has a lot to do with people, if it has face-to-face contact,” she said.
“We know that the vaccine takes three weeks to become effective.
‘Race’ to vaccinate the state
“We encourage you to get vaccinated as soon as possible, so that we have options moving forward into September about how we can move forward more freely.”
NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty said young people are at serious risk of illness from Covid-19 and urged all people to get vaccinated.
“So young people are certainly getting caught up with this disease,” he said.
“With the 58 people in ICU, 54 were not vaccinated, three had received their first dose of AstraZeneca and one had received their first dose of Pfizer vaccine.”
The Premier said that NSW is on track to reach the 6 million doses needed by the end of August for restriction to begin to be eased.
“We are sticking to our targets, and I am keen to get to 6 million jabs by the end of August, because that will provide us opportunities to consider what life looks like in September,” she said.
“We are really keen, to really sprint. This is a race. We are keen to spend to get those vaccination rates up.”
More than 400 fines across NSW
The NSW Police Force has issued 454 penalty infringement notices in the past 24 hours including 171 fines in south-west and north-west Sydney.
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said the message to the public is clear.
“If you are one of those people that want to go outside the public health orders, if you are one of those people that want to put the risk in terms of your own safety and of your family, that of the community... we will issue the infringement notices,” he said.
“Every single person wants to get out of this pandemic [and] wants to get out of the lockdown arrangements as quickly as possible. Don’t be one of the people to put that at jeopardy.”
Lockdown lifts in Queensland
Southeast Queenslanders will be released from lockdown at 4pm today, but will need to follow strict rules for at least two weeks, after recording nine new locally acquired Covid cases.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was important that residents of the 11 local government areas that spent the past eight days in lockdown recognised they were “not out of the woods yet”.
For the next 14 days, one of the key areas will be schools, with high school students now required to wear a mask at school.
“For all our high school students, please, I need you to wear masks, because you’ll be helping to keep the whole community safe,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“Because we have the Delta strain, and until we can get to those 70 and 80 per cent of vaccination rates, masks are absolutely critical.”
Other rules that will come into place at 4pm Sunday include a maximum of 10 people inside homes.
“You are able to go and visit your loved ones in hospital and aged care, but of course you can’t do that if you are subject to a home quarantine order,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
Weddings and funerals will be capped at 20 people.
Places of worship, convention centres, retail, hospitality, gym, hairdressers, beauty and personal care venues will all reopen, but the one per four square metre restrictions will come back into force.
Community sports will not be permitted over the next two weeks.
Ms Palaszczuk stressed that masks would continue to be “really important”, and would need to be worn widely.
She said those living in southeast Queensland could travel within that area, but said “now is not the time” to be travelling to regional parts of the state.
“Please, put off plans to visit family and friends in regional Queensland for the next two weeks,” she said.
Victoria records 11 new local cases
Victoria has recorded 11 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, as the state battles another wave of Delta infections.
All of the new cases are linked to previously confirmed cases, but none were in quarantine during their infectious period.
Victorians were plunged into their sixth lockdown on Thursday, in an attempt to curb a growing number of cases of the highly infectious Delta strain.
On Saturday, Premier Daniel Andrews warned that the number of cases in the state would rise throughout the lockdown.
“Our system will be overrun if we don’t bring this under control,” he said.
“We have it within us to continue to do this work, as tough and gruelling as it is, none of us have the luxury of pretending that this is over.”
More than 38,000 tests were carried out on Saturday and more than 17,000 vaccinations were administered.
Mr Andrews has previously warned that the virus “would go where the vaccine isn’t” as he urged more people to come forward for testing.
Police urge people in regional NSW to abide by rules
As The NSW Police Force is urging residents and visitors to regional NSW be vigilant and compliant with Covid health order in a big to prevent the infection spreading in their communities.
Regional police are carrying out high-visibility operations to ensure community members are abiding by the restrictions and to respond to reports of breaches.
Deputy Commissioner Mick Willing, of Regional NSW Field Operations, said police operations are being bolstered as required to protect regional and remote communities.
“The communities of regional NSW have been doing a great job to keep the virus out of their areas, and we need to keep up that good work; now is not the time for complacency,” he said. “It’s more important than ever that we fully comply with the Public Health Orders – and report breaches, especially relating to visitors from any of the areas subject to stay-at-home orders.
“In recent days, NSW Health identified high levels of virus fragments were detected in sewerage in a number of major regional centres, including Armidale, Coffs Harbour, Dubbo, and Mudgee.
“These alerts are of concern, as we know in Armidale, positive cases have since been confirmed.”
Stay-at-home orders are currently in place for the Hunter Region and Armidale and Guyra areas.
“The message is pretty simple: if you don’t need to leave the house, stay home!” Deputy Commissioner Willing said.
“If you’re heading out for an essential reason, please remember to put on a mask, maintain physical distance and check-in to all retail and business premises you visit.
“Regional communities are renowned for rolling their sleeves up and getting a job done, and just as they did in the Central West, I have no doubt the Hunter and Armidale communities will do what they have to do to eliminate COVID-19 from their areas.”
Sydney out and about on a sunny Saturday
Saturday was the state’s worst day ever for Covid cases but despite pleas from authorities for people to remain at home, thousands flocked to beaches, parks and cafes to take advantage of the warm, sunny weather.
Undeterred by 319 locally acquired cases and five deaths – with even higher numbers expected on Sunday – there also remains a significant number of people lingering around retail stores.
“The police at Bondi are currently handing out tickets like ice-creams,” Police Minister David Elliot told The Sunday Telegraph.
“They’re also targeting Bankstown. But after numerous reports of crowds on the northern beaches, especially around Manly and Fairy Bower, they’re also about to head there.”
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said many people are buying their
takeaways only to then congregate with people who aren’t from their household.
Officers handed out 335 penalty infringement notices in the 24 hours to yesterday morning.
“What we’ve seen in and around Canterbury-Bankstown and the Campsie area is that people are going out to try to get food … and then they are using that to then gather and congregate,” he said.
“And clearly, that is an area of risk that we really want people to appreciate that that’s where the virus will spread.”
Bureaucrats also issued an apology to the families of five people who died after contracting the virus in the geriatric and vascular wards at Liverpool Hospital.
Four staff and 29 patients contracted Covid-19 after a staff member unknowingly worked while infectious.
“The staff member had already received one dose of the Pfizer vaccine and was awaiting their second,” a South Western Sydney Local Health District spokeswoman said.
KFC at Punchbowl remained closed yesterday after 12 staff members tested positive earlier this week.
There are concerns the virus is moving further west into the Nepean area, with 23 new cases.
“And the advice I’ve had this morning; we expect there to be more tomorrow,” Health Minister Brad Hazzard said.
Armidale in northern NSW went into a one week lockdown at 5pm yesterday after a young person travelled there and transmitted the virus.
Four new cases have been diagnosed in young people in Newcastle, bringing the number of cases in that area to 11.
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