What this demonstrates to us is during a pandemic, you have to take decisions based on the science and the data and that’s exactly what we have done at every step of the way, and that’s exactly what we will continue to do.
It’s always a balancing act of the health risk versus what restrictions you impose on the community and every decision we have taken in New South Wales has been based on the health advice.
Whenever the health advice changes and, in fact, Dr Chant can attest, we respond very quickly.
We can put all the restrictions we like in place, but if people choose not to do the right thing or exercise good common sense, that is a huge risk to all of us and that’s unfortunately sometimes what happens.”
