Police to enhance police patrol to enforce 'social distancing' over Easter

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller Source: SBS

Police will be patrolling traditional Easter holiday spots and issuing warnings and fines to people who have ignored the pleas to stay at home.


New South Wales Chief Commissioner Mick Fuller says there will be a heavy police presence.

"The big focus will be on our country roads, the back streets, our main highways, caravan parks right across country New South Wales. Police will be patrolling those, people will be given one opportunity to pack up, go back to your home state, go back home otherwise we'll unfortunately have to issue tickets." he said.

Meanwhile, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian says any easing of the coronavirus restrictions will see more people can sick and die from Covid-19.

She's stressed that's the dilemna facing her state when trying to strike the right balance between making it easier for people to lead their lives and protecting them from the coronavirus.

There have been 48 new cases in the state bringing the total caseload to 2734.

36 people are intensive care wards and 22 are on ventilators.

New South Wales has recorded 21 deaths.

Premier Berejiklian says any decisions on easing restrictions will be based on expert health advice.

Premier said, "If the advice in a couple of weeks time is that there might be a couple of aspects that we can tweak to provide relief to our citizens well then we'll take that advice but that comes with risk and I need to be very upfront about that. Every time you relax a restriction, more people will get sick, more people will die and it's a horrible situation to be in but they're the choices, they're the options and we need to be very upfront about that."

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