{"id":9806,"date":"2020-12-30T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9806"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:23:21","slug":"statement-from-gladys-berejiklian-and-brad-hazzard-30-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/statement-from-gladys-berejiklian-and-brad-hazzard-30-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT FROM GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN AND BRAD HAZZARD 30 DECEMBER 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the current situation on the Northern Beaches and increasing concern about transmission of COVID-19 in other parts of Greater Sydney (which includes\u00a0Wollongong)\u00a0new restrictions will be in place on New Year\u2019s Eve.<br \/>\nThis decision has been made taking into account updated health advice from Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant.<br \/>\nFor New Year\u2019s Eve in\u00a0Greater Sydney (including Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains)\u00a0the following will apply;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Household gatherings will be limited to 5\u00a0visitors\u00a0(including children).<\/li>\n<li>The limit for outdoor gatherings will be reduced from 50 to 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Restrictions for the northern zone of the Northern Beaches remain the same but for the southern zone of the Northern Beaches the following will now apply;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Household gatherings will be limited to 5\u00a0visitors from within your zone\u00a0(including children).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These changes come into effect from midnight tonight (Wednesday 30 December)\u00a0and will be in place until further notice.<br \/>\nPeople are encouraged to limit non-essential gatherings over the New Year period where possible to further minimise the risk of transmission in the community.<br \/>\nWe thank the community for their patience.<br \/>\nOur priority is always to keep the community safe.<br \/>\nWe are watching the emerging situation closely and will update the community accordingly should any further changes be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the current situation on the Northern Beaches and increasing concern about transmission of COVID-19 in other parts of Greater Sydney (which includes\u00a0Wollongong)\u00a0new restrictions will be in place on New Year\u2019s Eve. This decision has been made taking into account updated health advice from Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant. For New Year\u2019s Eve in\u00a0Greater &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/statement-from-gladys-berejiklian-and-brad-hazzard-30-december-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STATEMENT FROM GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN AND BRAD HAZZARD 30 DECEMBER 2020&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}