Live Breaking News: Whole of NSW now in lockdown on state's worst day ever

Residents in regional NSW flocked to supermarkets and bottle shops after learning of the seven-day lockdown that is being enforced statewide. 

As a snap one-week statewide lockdown was announced for the whole of NSW, starting from 5pm Saturday, regional residents flocked to grocery stores.

 

They had just 1.5 hours to prepare for a lockdown, with them only being notified at 3.30pm.

This prompted a spate of panic-buying.

Photos of long queues and empty shelves have proliferated social media, from NSW's mid-north coast, to its Riverina region and even as far as the Queensland border. 

In an extreme case of panic buying, people are so desperate to buy groceries that someone tried to sell their spot in the Woolworths queue over a Facebook marketplace ad.

Police have been spotted standing outside a Woolworths store entrance in Griffith as panic grips its customers. 

The decision to expand the lockdown came on the state's worst day ever, with NSW recording 466 community transmissions on Saturday. 

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