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What’s within 5 kilometres of your home in Sydney?
By Mark Stehle, Richard Lama and Pallavi Singhal
The restrictions allowing Sydneysiders to move within 10 kilometres of their home have been cut to five kilometres.
Under the new rules, Sydneysiders must do their shopping, exercise and outdoor recreation in their local government area or within five kilometres of their home.
NSW Police will ramp up its presence in areas of concern from Sunday, including deploying riot squads and enhancing random checkpoints at key roads.
Fines for breaching health orders will be increased from $1000 to $5000. Ms Berejiklian said police would be able to impose the harsher fine from Saturday.
The movement rule for Sydneysiders will come into effect from Monday.
It will “mean that there will be less number of people in certain locations,” Ms Berejiklian said.
Please note the tool can struggle to locate your place on long roads so sometimes picking the nearest cross-street might give a more accurate guide.
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