What happens if I don’t obey the stay at home order? Warning for Sydney residents caught not wearing masks or outside their homes without valid reason
- Sydneysiders to be fined $200 for not wearing a mask amid Covid-19 restrictions
- Those who are caught breaching public health orders can be fined $1,000
- Lockdown applies to Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney
Sydney residents could be hit with on the spot fines of $200 if they’re caught not wearing a mask and $1,000 infringements if busted outside without a valid reason amid the next week of lockdown restrictions.
Millions of Sydneysiders who live or work in Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney have been locked down from 11.59pm on Friday for a week.
Gladys Berejiklian imposed the draconian stay-at-home orders on Friday morning after the state recorded 11 new local Covid-19 cases with a further 17 to be included in tomorrow’s numbers.
Six of the eleven cases recorded on Friday were mentioned on Thursday night, meaning there are 22 cases that have not been revealed.
Sydney residents could be hit with on the spot fines of $200 if they’re caught not wearing a mask and $1,000 penalties if busted outside without a valid reason amid the next week of lockdown restrictions
The lockdown applies to residents who live or have worked part-time or full-time in the hotspot suburbs in the past two weeks.
They are allowed outside only for work, education, essential shopping, care-giving and exercise in groups of ten or less.
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said several infringement notices for people not wearing masks had already been handed out.
‘The majority of those infringements last night were on the transport system and, of course, that is one of our most vulnerable places where people come together, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s on a train or a bus, it’s around the platform, it’s at those bus stops or shared areas where people wait for public transport,’ he said.
Mr Worbys said road blocks would not be set up but police would be ensuring people aren’t travelling when they’re not supposed to.
‘But as police go about their normal duties, they will be stopping cars and they will be asking and people will produce licences and where there’s a need to take action, police will,’ he said.
‘The mask-wearing — $200 on-the-spot fines for breaching public health orders is $1,000.’
The lockdown applies to residents who live or have worked part-time or full-time in the hotspot suburbs (pictured) in the past two weeks
Other residents in Greater Sydney will have to wear masks indoors and limit household visitors to five until Friday July 2.
Residents who live or work in the City of Sydney, Waverley, Randwick, Canada Bay, Inner West, Bayside, and Woollahra local government areas cannot travel outside metropolitan Sydney for non-essential reasons.
All of the new cases are linked to others except for three including a nine-year-old school student.
More to come.