People violating restrictions are responsible for much of the spread – but there’s another group as well, and the answer is more elusive.
They are, clearly, a large part of the problem. But at Wednesday’s news conference, chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant highlighted another conundrum NSW is facing: the spread of Covid among essential workers.
“The communities of southwestern Sydney and western Sydney are resilient, and I think it’s very important to reflect on the fact that they have been experiencing some of the harshest lockdown conditions anywhere,” Dr Chant said. “We also know that some people, a small proportion of people, are not perhaps taking Covid as seriously as I would like them to. And then what’s happening is they’re potentially going into multiple households, but in each of those households, you have got tens of people. And we know that household transmission for Covid is so common.”
“According to the data we have, every person who has the virus is spreading it to at least more than one person,” she said. “We have people in their teens, in their twenties, in their thirties, in their forties, in their fifties, in their sixties, in their seventies and eighties,” said Ms Berejiklian.
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