NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced that the Greater Sydney lockdown will be extended for at least two more weeks with the current settings.
The lockdown, which was set to end on the 16th of July at midnight will now be extended to at least July 30th.
The lockdown covers all regions of Sydney, as well as the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour.
The extension means that schools located within the lockdown areas will continue remote learning.
The extension comes after 97 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the 24 hours to 8 pm last night, which brings the total number of infections in NSW to 864.
Berejiklian said that the number of infectious people in the community needs to drop before lockdown can be lifted.
“That is the number, the 24 number is what we need to get down to is close to zero as possible,” she said.
Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry CHant said that a number of suburbs are a concern and need to have higher levels of testing.
The areas of concern are Fairfield local government area, Roselands, Rosebury, Canterbury, Belmore, Sutherland shire, the St George area, Windsor, St Ives, Penrith and Bayside local government area,” she said.
“I am highlighting that the risk is ever present and remember, what I’m reading you today is what has happened overnight so tomorrow, there might be different sites,” Dr Chant said.
“That really reinforces the message that whenever you leave the house, you’ve got to assume you can come into contact with someone who is infectious with covid.”
