NSW has reported 1405 new local coronavirus cases and five deaths on Thursday, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a plan for gyms, hospitality venues and hairdressers to reopen for the fully vaccinated by the end of October.
Parts of the mid north coast, north coast, north-west, Albury, Riverina and Murrumbidgee areas, however, will exit lockdown this Saturday due to their low case numbers.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian addresses the COVID briefing on Thursday morning.Credit:James Brickwood
The following local government areas will remain under stay-at-home orders together with the Greater Sydney area: Bathurst, Bega, Blayney, Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Broken Hill, Cabonne, Central Coast, Central Darling, Cessnock, Dubbo, Dungog, Eurobodalla, Forbes, Gilgandra, Goulburn Mulwarre, Kiama, Lake Macquarie, Lithgow, Maitland, Mid-Coast, Mid-Western, Muswellbrook, Narrabri, Narromine, Newcastle, Orange, Parkes, Port Stephens, Queanbeyan-Palerang, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven, Singleton, Snowy Monaro, Upper Hunter, Walgett and Wingecarribee.
The Premier said these stay at home restrictions would be lifted the Monday after NSW hit 70 per cent full vaccination.
She stressed that – although the plan would allow “any person” who was fully vaccinated to participate in those freedoms – health authorities would be able to restrict movement if there was a surge of cases in a certain area.
“Whilst today, the NSW government is outlining our plan, our roadmap, for the way forward in NSW, we’re definitely not out of the woods,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“We know that case numbers are likely to peak in the next week or so and we also know that our hospital system will be under the greatest stress in October.
However, we also know that living with COVID means you have a cautious and staged reopening.”
Under the roadmap, the freedoms listed below will only be available to people who are fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption:
- Five visitors will be allowed in a home where all adults are fully vaccinated (not including children 12 and under).
- Up to 20 fully vaccinated people can gather in an outdoor setting.
- Hospitality venues can reopen subject to a four-square-metre rule indoors and a two-square-metre rule outside, with fully vaccinated patrons.
- Retail stores can reopen to the fully vaccinated. People who are not fully vaccinated can still access critical retail.
- Hairdressers and nail salons can reopen with a five-client cap, provided clients are vaccinated.
- Gyms and indoor recreation can reopen with a four-square-metre capacity rule for the fully vaccinated.
- Sporting facilities including swimming pools can reopen to the fully vaccinated.
- Stadiums racecourses, theme parks and zoos can reopen to the fully vaccinated with a four-square-metre cap.
- Fully vaccinated people can attend ticketed and seated outdoor events with a 500-person cap.
- Cinemas, theatres, music halls, museums and galleries can reopen to the fully vaccinated with a four-square-metre rule or 75 per cent seated capacity.
- Weddings can go ahead with 50 fully vaccinated guests. Dancing is allowed but drinking must occur while sitting down.
- Fifty fully vaccinated guests can attend funerals.
- Churches and places of worship can open to the fully vaccinated with a four-square-metre rule
- Travel across NSW can occur, with caravan parks and camping grounds open to the fully vaccinated and carpooling permitted.
Children under 16 can access all outdoor settings but can only visit indoor venues with members of their household. Employers continue to be directed to allow employees to work from home if able to do so.
Masks will remain compulsory in all public indoor settings. In outdoor hospitality venues, only hospitality staff will be required to wear a mask.
Since the COVID-19 update yesterday, there were five new deaths reported: a man in his 80s who died at Nepean Hospital, a woman in her 70s who died at Ryde Hospital, a woman in her 70s who died at Concord Hospital, a man in his 80s who died at Westmead Hospital and a woman in her 40s who died at Liverpool Hospital.
There are currently 1175 COVID-19 cases in NSW’s hospitals, with 202 people in intensive care. Eighty require ventilation.
More than 7000 recently retired doctors and nurses in NSW will now be able to fill in for healthcare workers furloughed due to COVID-19 after the national medical board altered the conditions on its pandemic response sub-register this week.
Data released by the NSW government’s Agency for Clinical Innovation on Wednesday evening showed 1123 healthcare workers were in isolation following a COVID-19 exposure.
In a statement, NSW Health said it supported the decision to expand the register. The state already allowed previously registered health professionals, including nurses, who had retired or whose registration lapsed between three and 10 years ago to work in vaccination hubs.
Responding to rising cases, bed space numbers at hospitals is also expanding. A recently completed building at Concord Hospital with mostly single-bed rooms will open exclusively to COVID-19 patients later this month.
The eight-storey building, initially set to house its cancer centre, aged health centre and dedicated veterans’ health service, will first be used as a dedicated COVID-19 treatment centre.
“Two-thirds of inpatient beds in the new building at Concord Hospital are in single rooms, providing more space to isolate and care for patients with COVID-19,” Sydney Local Health District chief executive Teresa Anderson said.
In Sydney’s south-west and west, there are expected to be six COVID-19 wards at Campbelltown, Liverpool and Westmead hospitals, respectively, by the end of the week.
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