NSW residents will be allowed to dance at weddings and hold gatherings of 50 people at their homes from Friday in a major easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
Drinking when standing at indoor venues also will be permissible from March 17, if there are zero locally acquired cases recorded over the next two weeks.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the implementation of the vaccine program and zero locally acquired cases had empowered NSW to make further changes “towards a new COVID normal”. When asked if people could dance at venues other than at nuptials, Ms Berejiklian said “not yet”.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.Credit:Kate Geraghty
“I thank the community for following the health advice to keep the virus at bay. However, we cannot be complacent,” she said.
The restrictions eased from Friday, 12.01am, include:
- Fifty visitors being allowed in the home.
- Thirty people to dance at weddings, with guests allowed to rotate on and off the dance floor.
- Fifty people at gym classes subject to the 4-square-metre rule.
- Thirty people (up from five) to sing indoors subject to social distancing requirements.
- Congregants at places of worship can sing if wearing face masks subject to the 4-square-metre rule.
- Cinemas reverting back to 100 per cent capacity.
If there are zero locally acquired cases recorded over the next two weeks, drinking while standing will be allowed at indoor venues from Wednesday, March 17.
NSW recorded its 38th consecutive day without a locally acquired case on Wednesday, which is the longest stretch of zero community transmissions in the course of the pandemic.
The previous longest stretch was 26 days, when no cases were recorded between 8pm on November 6 and 8pm on December 2, 2020, before the northern beaches outbreak.
There were 17,917 tests reported to 8pm last night, considerably higher than the previous day’s total of 10,177.
Ms Berejiklian said more than 3200 people had received their COVID-19 jab in the first two days of the vaccination program in NSW.
“[This] is a wonderful effort in just 48 hours and that is only in the three state-run hospitals,” she said.
“So far there is enormous enthusiasm and positivity around people receiving the vaccine and those administering the vaccine. I want to commend everybody at NSW Health for that mammoth task.”
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Kate Aubusson is Health Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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