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Stay-at-home orders are now in effect across all Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour.
Until 11.59pm on Friday 9 July, everyone in Greater Sydney must stay at home, unless it is for an essential reason such as:
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More than 70,000 residents on Sydney s Northern Beaches have celebrated their first taste of freedom in three weeks as the region s draconian Covid lockdown was finally lifted at midnight.
Suburbs north of Narrabeen Bridge, known as the northern zone, have been under stay-at-home orders since December 19.
They have not been allowed to leave the zone and were only given permission to leave their homes for essential shopping, healthcare reasons or exercise.
Mona Vale Beach was packed with families and groups of young people on Sunday, with locals making the most of the 28C weather.
Further north at Avalon Beach, hundreds of beachgoers were seen sprawled out on the sand and in the water.
Sydney Braces for Potential Spread of Virus From Queensland
New South Wales (NSW) is on high alert for the spread of the contagious UK strain of COVID-19 from Brisbane, where a hotel cleaner caught the mutated virus.
NSW is racing to trace the source of a mystery coronavirus case in Sydney’s northern beaches as Australia faces an anxious wait to see if a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 has spread from Brisbane.
NSW recorded four new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Friday, including one that remains under investigation.
Earlier on Friday, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced Greater Brisbane would enter a three-day lockdown after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel was diagnosed with the more infectious UK virus strain.
Three new locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed in NSW, as restrictions are lifted in the northern zone of Sydney's northern beaches.