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Builders have warned projects worth up to a combined $6 billion have ground to a halt in Sydney as thousands of construction workers from eight council areas across the city’s western suburbs remain under strict lockdown.
More than 70,000 workers and tradespeople in COVID-19 hotspots from Parramatta to Campbelltown cannot attend work despite the NSW government lifting its two-week ban on some building sites over the weekend.
Building projects in western Sydney remain shut down due to the state’s coronavirus crisis.
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Master Builders Association executive director Brian Seidler estimated work on projects worth a combined $5 billion to $6 billion had stopped in those areas where the construction ban still applied, including Fairfield, Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Blacktown, Parramatta, Georges River and Campbelltown.