Anyone heading up into the Wollongong LGA or Sydney over the next few days needs to take a mask with them to comply with new COVID requirements.

The following measures are effective from midday today, 6 May 2021 (enforceable from 5pm) until 12:01am Monday, 10 May for the Greater Sydney region (including Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains):

• visitors to households will be limited to 20 guests – including children
• masks will be compulsory on public transport and in all public indoor venues, such as retail, theatres, hospitals, aged care facilities and for front-of-house hospitality staff (except in a hospitality venue when eating or drinking)
• drinking while standing up at indoor venues will not be allowed
• singing by audiences at indoor shows or by congregants at indoor places of worship will not be allowed
• dancing will not be allowed at indoor hospitality venues or nightclubs however, dancing is allowed at weddings with a strong recommendation that no more than 20 people should be on the dancefloor at any one time
• visitors to aged care facilities will be limited to two people.

NSW Health also strongly recommends the community avoids mingling in large groups over the coming days, and are careful not to put our most vulnerable at risk.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the three day restrictions would help reduce the risk of a super spreading event.

“These measures are proportionate to the risk and will help reduce further cases of community transmission.

“To allow our health authorities to do their excellent work it is critical the community continues to keep their physical distance, get tested with even the mildest of symptoms and importantly continues to use the Service NSW app to check into venues.”

Anyone experiencing any cold or flu-like symptoms, even if they are mild, must isolate immediately, get tested and continue to isolate until a negative result is received. This applies even if you have had your first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.