- Police have been given new powers to crack down on Covid rule breakers
- Businesses and work sites across the state can be shut down by police
- Also the penalty for not wearing a mask where required increases to $500
Fines for Covid rule breakers in NSW have doubled and police given wide-ranging new powers to shut down businesses and construction sites.
The penalty for not wearing a mask where required has more than doubled from $200 to $500 as too many people were failing to put them on.
Sydney’s outbreak added 239 cases – a record for NSW in the entire pandemic – on Thursday with 66 infectious in the community and 70 under investigation.
Continued growth in case numbers despite lockdown led health authorities to believe too many Sydneysiders were ignoring lockdown and spreading the virus.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9837589/Fines-breaching-Sydneys-lockdown-doubled.html
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