$5,000 fine for breaking Sydney Covid health orders and 5km exercise limits across the city

Huge $5,000 fine for breaking health orders, 5km exercise limits everywhere and 500 more troops on our streets: Everything you need to know about Sydney’s worst day of Covid so far and how to follow the new rules

By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 02:32 BST, 14 August 2021 | Updated: 02:44 BST, 14 August 2021

Fines for breaching Covid public health orders in NSW have been massively increased as the Premier announced the worst day for state in the pandemic yet. 

The increased fines include a $5,000 from the spot breach for a quarantine breach, which is currently $1000, along with a $5,000 on the spot for lying about a permit or to a contact tracer. 

There will also be a $3000 on the spot fine for breaching the two person exercise rule in any way and a $3000 on the spot fine for breaching rules about going into regional NSW.

The 10km exercise and shopping limit has also been decreased to 5km across Greater Sydney. 

Police will launch operation Stay At Home from Sunday at midnight, supported by an additional 500 ADF members to join the 300 already on the ground. 

‘[There will be] enhanced random checkpoints at key roads, with accompanying electronic warning signs and police have every ability with that increased presence to clamp down on people doing the wrong thing.’ Ms Berejiklian said at the state’s Saturday update. 

‘From Monday, the health orders will be formally enforced from midnight, however between now and then police will still be able to impose these additional fines, even though the health orders kick in on Monday morning.’ 

A cabinet meeting on Friday evening agreed current restrictions weren’t doing enough to curb the Indian delta strain outbreak. 

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (pictured on Saturday) announced massive increases in fines for Covid public health breaches in the state 

NSW recorded another 466 Covid cases on Saturday and four deaths a man in his 70s, a man in his 80s, a woman in her 40s and a woman in her 70s. 

‘We are in a really extremely concerning situation. At least 60 of the infections were in the community but that is likely to go up given the number of cases are under investigation,’ Ms Berejiklian said.   

There are some concerns the number of people infectious in the community could be as high as 390 with a raft of cases under investigation. 

‘We will get through this. But September and October will be very difficult.’ 

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