{"id":5957,"date":"2020-04-10T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2020-04-10T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:31:34","slug":"stay-home-this-easter-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/stay-home-this-easter-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay home this Easter long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle is urging anyone tempted out by this long weekend\u2019s forecast sunshine to heed the advice of police and health officials and stay home instead.<br \/>\nThe NSW Government Public Health Order on Gathering and Movement, gazetted 30 March 2020, makes it illegal to congregate in groups of more than two and states people must remain in the home unless they have a reasonable excuse to be out.<br \/>\nLord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the upcoming Easter long weekend was not the time to slip up on social distancing.<br \/>\n\u201cNovocastrians have embraced the need for social distancing and are staying home to protect themselves and others from the spread of COVID-19,\u201d the Lord Mayor said.<br \/>\n\u201cWith forecast warm and sunny weather over the Easter long weekend, we are stressing how important it is at this critical point of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic for people to\u00a0continue to\u00a0stay home.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Lord Mayor\u00a0echoed the message from NSW Police that\u00a0unless people were\u00a0going to the supermarket\u00a0or\u00a0pharmacy, going to\u00a0or\u00a0from work if\u00a0they\u00a0cannot work from home, going to medical appointments, or\u00a0getting\u00a0some exercise in\u00a0their\u00a0own neighbourhood, they should be at home.<br \/>\n\u201cTo help contain and slow the spread of COVID-19, we all have to work together and that means staying in our homes and our neighbourhoods for the time being.<br \/>\n\u201cBy working together as a community, we can reduce the spread of COVID-19 to protect each other and\u00a0be back\u00a0enjoying ourselves with friends and family as soon as possible.\u201d<br \/>\nCity of Newcastle has installed signage at beaches, parks and playgrounds across the local government area advising that the spaces are closed.<br \/>\nOutdoor facilities like BBQs, shelters and picnic tables are also closed, while NSW Police have the power to issue on-the-spot fines to people not complying with social distancing rules.<br \/>\nFor the latest on City of Newcastle\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Council\/News\/COVID-19-how-we-are-responding\">newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle is urging anyone tempted out by this long weekend\u2019s forecast sunshine to heed the advice of police and health officials and stay home instead. The NSW Government Public Health Order on Gathering and Movement, gazetted 30 March 2020, makes it illegal to congregate in groups of more than two and states people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/stay-home-this-easter-long-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay home this Easter long weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}