Wagga shops saw a mass influx of customers as word of a lockdown started to leak, and they became packed when NSW Health confirmed the order.
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On Saturday it was announced that the new restrictions would be introduced for all of regional NSW to protect residents from the evolving COVID-19 outbreak.
The reasons people may leave home include:
- Shopping for food or other essential goods and services.
- Medical care or compassionate needs (people can leave home to have a COVID-19 vaccination unless you have been identified as a close contact).
- Exercise outdoors in groups of two or fewer (unless members of the same household).
- Work, where you cannot work from home.
"The chemists will be open and you will be able to go to the doctor. Nothing that is essential is going to be closed and so there's no need to panic," he said yesterday.
IN OTHER NEWS:
"While it is short notice, given the case numbers today out of Sydney and particularly for us, the numbers out of Canberra and Dubbo local government areas and the sewerage traces that are being detected across the state, it is important that we lock down for seven days.
"If we get this right, we will be in a much better position when we come out of it."
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