However a strict vaccination and testing regime will be in place for the workers from the affected local government areas:Blacktown,Campbelltown,Canterbury-Bankstown,Cumberland,Fairfield,Georges River,Liverpool and Parramatta.
“We want workers back on the tools,but we need to continue to keep this virus at bay,and so by opening unoccupied work sites at 50 per cent capacity and vaccinating workers from within those affected LGAs,we can achieve both,” Mr Barilaro said on Saturday.
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It comes asThe Sun-Herald can reveal close to $8 billion worth of major infrastructure projects - including the new airport and Southwest Metro - have been on ice within Sydney’s coronavirus red zones.
From Wednesday workers from those LGAs will have to provide evidence that they have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine before attending a work site,or one dose of a vaccine at least three weeks beforehand.
If it is less than three weeks since they received their first vaccine dose,the workers must be tested and produce a negative result in the 72 hours before attending a work site.
NSW Health is trialling rapid antigen testing,which if approved will be offered to the workers as an alternative to pathology tests,which can have waiting times of more than 48 hours for results.