Release authorized after three months confined.
In mid-October, the vaccinated residents of Sydney will finally be able to taste life outdoors after more than a quarter of confinement, authorities announced on Monday.
Anxious to achieve this drop in health restrictions while the number of cases decreases, they unveiled a "plan for freedom".
The plan is to lift the requirement to stay at home in Sydney and the state of New South Wales when the full vaccination rate exceeds 70%.
A goal that the Prime Minister of the State Gladys Berejiklian thinks to achieve on October 11.
Unvaccinated adults will have to wait at least until December 1 to enjoy these same freedoms, when 90% of the population of age to be vaccinated should be.
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For the first time in more than three months, pubs, restaurants and shops will be able to reopen to vaccinated customers and friends and families living in Australia's largest city will be able to come together again.
“There is only this week and next week to hold, encouraged Gladys Berejiklian.
We're almost there, almost there, let's not give up at the last minute.
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Return of domestic travel at the end of October
The "plan for freedom" will allow travel through New South Wales when 80% of those over 16 are vaccinated, a threshold that could be reached by the end of October, said Deputy Prime Minister John Barilaro.
The limitation on the number of guests at funerals and weddings will be lifted at the same time and sporting events can resume.
The number of daily cases fell to 800 in New South Wales on Monday, from a peak of around 1,500 in September, and 85% of the adult population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Gladys Berejiklian expects a rebound in the number of cases with the end of confinement but remains confident in the ability to manage these patients.
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"We know that once we reopen with 70% of people having received two doses, the number of cases will skyrocket," she warned.
But what will protect us is the fact that many people will have received at least the first dose of vaccine and these people will have an extra layer of protection that will prevent them from ending up in the hospital, or worse ”.
Canberra deconfines as of October 15
Australia has suffered a winter wave of Covid-19 due to the highly contagious Delta variant, which has forced the country's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, to impose lockdown for several months.
But the vaccination campaign, slow to start, has accelerated, allowing leaders to establish a reopening plan also including a resumption of international flights by the end of the year.
The capital Canberra also announced Monday the end of its confinement for October 15, with the reopening of bars, beauty salons and gyms.
Since mid-August, the authorities have asked the 400,000 inhabitants of the city to stay at home to stem a small but continuing epidemic.
