Wedding guest lists will again be restricted and “all indoor hospitality venues” limited to bookings of no more than 10 per group under tough new restrictions in New South Wales.
Weddings will be able to have no more than 150 people, with everyone to remain seated at all times, while funerals will be limited to 100.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the changes would come into place on July 24, giving businesses a week to prepare.
The four-square-metre rule will still apply to all venues.
Ms Berejiklian said there would be no changes to the amount of people allowed in homes, but she flagged the state’s chief health officer Kerry Chant was advising it be reduced to 10 in the near future.
While weddings have a larger attendee limit, the Premier said there can be “no dancing, no singing, no mingling”.
The celebration must take place with everyone seated at all times, and anything held indoors is still subject to the four-square-metre rule.
“If you have a smaller space, you might only be allowed to have 20 people in your space,” she said.
Weddings were given a slight reprieve on restrictions compared with funerals because the ceremony could take place with everyone seated, while this can be impossible at some funerals.
“This is to give us every opportunity to keep New South Wales as open as possible,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“Every opportunity for New South Wales to keep moving forward, but we say this in the context that we have to be flexible, we have to appreciate once this disease gets into the community it moves very, very quickly and in ways in which we can‘t always predict.
“What we need to do in New South Wales is minimise the risk of those activities which we know super spread the virus, those activities indoors which we know act as a catalyst.”
The new restrictions come after increased cases of coronavirus, which are believed to have stemmed mostly from the Crossroads Hotel in Casula.
A Melbourne freight worker visited the pub with some colleagues after travelling to Sydney to work, and 42 cases have since been linked to his visit.
Ms Berejiklian said the state was on “high alert about the underlying community transmission that could be bubbling away.”
“We’re very concerned, we’re worried about any seeding that may have happened in Victoria. We also have a couple of cases which still have unknown sources and that worries us.”
Eight new cases of coronavirus were announced for NSW on Friday, from testing up to 8pm on Thursday night.
Of those, two were in hotel quarantine and six were cases of community transmission.
A further five tested positive after 8pm - three were linked to the Crossroads Hotel cluster, but were not at the Casula pub, as well as a man in his 40s and a teenager, which are both under investigation.
Dr Chant said there had been five recent cases reporting they had spent time at Wetherill Park’s Stockland Mall while infectious, and a new cluster is thought to be emerging out of a Thai restaurant inside the shopping centre.
A woman in her 30s worked at the restaurant four times before being diagnosed with coronavirus, and Dr Chant said people who had been there should be on alert.
“We are urging anyone who is at the mall in the last two weeks to be particularly vigilant for symptoms, and especially those who attended the Thai Rock restaurant on the 10th, 11th, 12th, or 14th of July to watch carefully for symptoms and if they occur, isolate and immediately come forward for testing,” she said.
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