COVID-19 lockdown expanded to cover Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Central Coast..

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இங்கே( Sydney) lockdown திரும்பவும் தொடங்குகிறது..இன்றிலிருந்து வரும் 9ம் திகதி வரை.. 

COVID-19 lockdown expanded to cover Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Central Coast

By Paige Cockburn

Posted  12mminutes ago, updated 5mminutes ago

The usual bustling tunnel to Central Station will be a lot quieter for the next fortnight.(ABC News: Timothy Swanston)

Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong will enter a lockdown from 6:00pm today until 11.59pm on Friday July 9.

Earlier today, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian flagged the current lockdown, which only applies to four areas of Sydney, would have to be expanded in response to a growing COVID-19 outbreak.

The only reasons people in those areas can leave home are:

• Shopping for food or other essential goods and services
• Medical care or compassionate needs (including to get a COVID-19 vaccine)
• Exercise outdoors in groups of 10 or fewer
• Essential work, or education, where you cannot work or study from home

Ms Berejikian said weddings would be permitted to take place today and tomorrow on compassionate grounds.

However, from Monday they would not be allowed until at least July 9.

Funerals will be permitted with a maximum 100 guests (subject to the four-square-metre rule) for the duration of the lockdown.

Ms Berejiklian said there was "no point" only locking down for a few days as it wouldn't allow contact tracers to stay ahead of the virus.

"The best health advice today is that it should be for two weeks, but if there is any massive improvement ahead of that time, of course, we'll evaluate that," she said.

More to come.

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