Faith leaders are keen to avoid awkward encounters where they’re forced to turn unvaccinated people away,so most are waiting another two weeks to open.
The average of 38 days between first and second doses in NSW suggests the state will hit 80 per cent next week,with a change in restrictions the following Monday.
The population level protection from vaccine coverage will be at its peak right now.
The wait is over. Sydney has emerged from its 106-day lockdown,with pubs,shops and hairdressers bracing for a frantic return to normality.
Shoppers queued at Kmart at midnight,barbers tried to fix homegrown haircuts ... and drivers fought to find an empty car space at shopping centres. Normal life is back.
Groups of friends reunited over coffee in Fairfield,but some businesses are concerned trade will be slow to return.
A line of men drank beers at Premier Dominic Perrottet’s media conference marking NSW’s reopening. There wasn’t a woman in sight.
After four months of separation despite only living streets apart,Barbara Olliff,97,and her daughter Judy Christian were reunited on Monday morning.
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