From Monday,all construction sites throughout NSW can operate with one person per 4 square metres.
Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the sector was crucial to the economy,and it was important to get it back to “full throttle as quickly and as safely as possible”.
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“The construction industry contributes around $46.8 billion to the NSW economy each year and directly employs 380,000 people,” he said.
Crisis cabinet also agreed to grant new freedoms to children and teenagers aged 18 years and under,allowing them to form a bubble of three friends to gather in each other’s homes.
As crisis cabinet continues to meet over the easing of restrictions,documents tabled to NSW Parliament reveal the group of senior ministers met twice on June 16,when a Bondi limousine drive tested positive to the Delta strain of COVID-19. But they did not meet again until June 25,when the first stay-at-home orders were announced in the eastern suburbs.