The New South Wales government will make it compulsory for all attendees to wear a mask at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the upcoming test match. And will increase police presence in and around the stadium to enforce public health orders.
“From the moment effectively you get into the transport to there and get in the queue at the front of the SCG and go to your seat ... you must wear a mask,” he said. “The only exception to that is if your eating or drinking.”
Hazzard noted that the news that a spectator with COVID-19 had attended the Melbourne stadium had influenced the NSW government thinking on increasing the test match’s health regulations.
“The evidence that’s come off this morning from the Victorian situation is such that the public health officials were of the view we need to step it up to that higher level,” Hazzard said.
Currently Berala and nearby suburbs and Wentworthville and Belmore are on the do-not-attend blacklist. Any person who sat in zone five of the MCG’s Great Southern Stand in Melbourne is also banned from attending the SCG Test.
The increasing health measures come as the NSW government has been increasing its health regulations for the Greater Sydney Area, including Wollongong, Central Coast and the Blue Mountains.
NSW police told The Epoch Times that as of midday on Wednesday 8 people have been issued on-the-spot fines for not wearing a mask.
The Australian Medical Association led calls for the third Test to be played in front of no fans because of the risk it poses as a potential coronavirus super-spreading event.
