The LGAs of concern are Bayside,Blacktown,Burwood,Campbelltown,Canterbury-Bankstown,Cumberland,Fairfield,Georges River,Liverpool,Parramatta,Strathfield,and the Penrith suburbs of Caddens,Claremont Meadows,Colyton,Erskine Park,Kemps Creek,Kingswood,Mount Vernon,North St Marys,Orchard Hills,Oxley Park,St Clair and St Marys.
The one-month extension to lockdown is expected to cost the state economy close to $1.5 billion each week. The NSW government is also setting aside about $1 billion for JobSaver payments for struggling businesses through September.
Masks will be mandatory outdoors at all times other than exercising for all of Sydney from Monday,as well as the regions until August 28,while a 9pm - 5am curfew will only be applied to local government areas of concern. People in these areas will also only be allowed to exercise outside their homes for one hour a day.
Scores of businesses in areas of concern will have to transition to “click and collect”,and workers from the hotspot regions will have to undergo rapid antigen testing at their worksite if they are not vaccinated. Authorised workers in these regions will also need to carry a work permit from Service NSW.
Meanwhile,police will be given powers to lock down entire apartment blocks while NSW Health asses the COVID-19 risk.