Regional New South Wales stay-at-home orders extended

To protect the people of NSW from the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, the stay-at-home orders now in place for all of regional NSW have been extended. The restrictions were introduced on Saturday 14 August and will now be in place until 11.59pm Friday 10 September 2021.

The restrictions follow updated health advice from NSW Health about the growing risk of the Delta variant of COVID-19 to the regional community of NSW.

This means that everyone in New South Wales must stay at home unless they need to leave for one of 4 essential reasons:

• Shopping for food or other essential goods and services in the local government area you live in or if you need to cross into another local government area, stay within 5km of your home
• Medical care or compassionate needs (including to get a COVID-19 vaccine)
• Exercise in groups of no more than 2 (unless form within your household) in the local government area you live in or if you need to cross into another local government area, stay within 5km of your home
• Essential work, or education, where you cannot work or study from home.

For our people who live or stay in regional NSW please be assured that you can continue to come to work if your work cannot be done from home and you do not need an Authorised Worker letter to do so. Be sure to understand what you can and can’t do under the rules.

We understand this is a difficult time for you and your local communities and remind you that it’s now more important than ever that if you have even the mildest of symptoms you come forward for testing to help find any COVID-19 cases in your area.