Recap on latest update, Sydney lockdown to begin at 6pm
By Lucy Cormack
In case you missed it, here is a recap of the latest NSW COVID update:
Strict stay-at-home orders will apply to all people in the Greater Sydney including Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong from 6pm Saturday.
The lockdown will remain in place until Friday July 9.
An empty King Street Newtown on what would usually be a bustling Saturday morning.
Everyone in Greater Sydney must stay at home unless it is for an essential reason: shopping for essential goods, medical or compassionate needs, exercise outdoors in groups of 10 or less, essential work or education.
Community sport will not be permitted during the lockdown.
Weddings will not be allowed from 11.59pm, Sunday, while funerals will be limited to one person per four square metres, capped at 100 people. Masks will be compulsory while indoors.
Anyone in regional NSW who has been in Greater Sydney since June 21 must self isolate from 14 days since they left Sydney.
Police will be using number plate recognition technology to monitor for vehicles from Greater Sydney.
Transmissibility of the Delta strain is at least double what previous variants have been.