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. The Australian Medical Association President Dr. Omar Khorshid has called for travel limits within a five kilometre radius from home and outdoor mask wearing rules to be extended beyond eight local government areas. “We’re trying to strike a balance and I think the balance is appropriate,” Hazzard told ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday. He said when Sydney locked down the northern beaches during an outbreak last year and the eastern suburbs during this outbreak, there was a “high level of compliance.” The lockdown in Sydney’s southwest had been more “challenging,” he said. NSW recorded its 14th death in this current outbreak on Saturday, a man in his 60s who died at home in southwest Sydney. When asked about his previous comments …
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