Tasmania has announced the easing of more restrictions that will allow for larger crowds at key events like the Launceston Cup, the Sydney to Hobart boat race, and major music festivals this summer.
Premier Peter Gutwein has unveiled a three-step plan that will gradually allow for larger crowds at events, as long as operators continue to comply with COVID safety measures.
By stage three, free-moving outdoor events can have up to 5000 people and free-moving indoor events can have up to 1000 people.
Seated outdoor events at 50 per cent capacity can have up to 10,000 people and seated indoor events at 50 per cent capacity can have up to 2,000 people.
Events with multiple separate areas on one site or across multiple sites can have up to 10,000 people in total.
"The major cups can go ahead, we can plan to have major music festivals," Mr Gutwein said.
"Importantly, it provides a framework for the Sydney to Hobart to operate in as well, and for crowd sizes to be of significant size for Big Bash cricket over summer."
But COVIDSafe rules still apply – which means no free mixing between people.
"You can't, for example, have a concert and not control the mixing of people — so a large space and everyone ends up at a very large mosh pit at the front," Public Health Director Mark Veitch said.
"Say you were having a concert in a field, there are ways you could do that — you could ask people to bring blankets and have people spread out."
