Masked police and exercisers were out in force around Garden Island Naval Base and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair over the weekend, as the the weather warms and as pressure mounts to open up from lockdown, despite record COVID-19 cases.
Current Public Health Orders still maintain that one exemption to being permitted outdoors is for physical exercise and recreation with in a 5km radius of your residence. People found contravening these orders face a $5,000 fine.
There have been steadily growing numbers of coronavirus cases in the inner suburbs, including in Sydney's east.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’.
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