Sydney’s Current Limits on Lockdown Rules ‘Appropriate’: Hazzard

Australian Medical Association pushes to expand lockdown restrictions beyond hotspot LGAs

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys speaks with NSW Minister for Health and Medical Research Brad Hazzard during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, on July 16, 2021. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says the state’s authorities will keep its harsher lockdown measures limited to specific local government areas despite calls to expand certain rules for all of Sydney.