15/08/2021
⚠️STAY AT HOME ORDER - ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS⚠️
To protect the people of NSW from the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, new restrictions have been introduced for all of Regional NSW, effective from 5pm 14 August, with additional restrictions for all of NSW including Greater Sydney effective from 12:01am 16 August.
This means the whole of NSW is now under stay at home restrictions.
You must stay at home unless you have a reasonable excuse to leave. You cannot have visitors to your home from outside your household, including family and friends.
You can have one visitor at one time to fulfil carers' responsibilities or provide care or assistance, or for compassionate reasons, including where two people are in a relationship but do not live together.
From midnight tonight (from Monday 16 August):
• the 10 kilometre rule will be reduced for essential shopping and exercise to be done in your local government area (LGA) or if outside your LGA, within 5 kilometres of home. LGAs of concern must still exercise and shop within 5 kilometres from home only.
• In LGAs of concern, where prescribed work is being carried out there can only be 5 workers outside
• In LGAs of concern it will no longer be a reasonable excuse to leave your home to engage in outdoor recreation. You will only be allowed to exercise or supervise a child under 12 who is exercising or engaging in play
• There are new fines for providing false information to authorised contact tracers
• There are new restrictions on leaving your place of residence and inspecting property or moving between residence. This will only be permitted for:
o Regional NSW: people moving to a new place or between residence or inspecting property
o Greater Sydney: to move between a place of residence outside of Greater Sydney but only if the move is for work and only the 1 person working moves, or the move is for urgent repairs or maintenance or animal welfare but only 1 person moves
o Greater Sydney: inspecting real estate outside of Greater Sydney but only if there is a genuine intention to move and reside there
o supervising or facilitating a move
The rules relating to testing of workers, declared LGA areas (including authorised workers) and construction sites do not apply outside of Greater Sydney.
In areas that were not in lockdown before 5pm Saturday 14 August, weddings and funerals can take place until the beginning of 16 August. After that weddings are not permitted and funerals are subject to the 10 mourner limit. Similarly, for areas not in lockdown before 5pm, people can continue to stay in caravan parks and camping on a booking made before 5pm.
If you live in Greater Sydney you should not be travelling outside this area for COVID-19 vaccination. You must reduce all movement, especially to regional areas, to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Please visit nsw.gov.au/covid-19/rules for more information and regular updates
NSW Health urges people to continue to present for testing with even the mildest of cold-like symptoms.
There are more than 440 COVID-19 testing locations across NSW, many of which are open seven days a week. To find your nearest testing clinic, visit: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/health-and-wellbeing/clinics
Find your nearest coronavirus testing centre in NSW.
