NSW Police have announced a major operation in southwest Sydney after pleas to follow the lockdown rules fell on deaf ears.
There will be an extra 100 officers - if not more - on the ground in Fairfield, Liverpool and Canterbury-Bankstown from 7am on Friday.
“This is about us working together to comply with these orders,” Assistant Commissioner Tony Cook said.
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“When we do not get the compliance we will enforce it.”
Under the lockdown measures, there are only four reasons to leave home.
They are to work or study where it can’t be done remotely, to exercise outdoors, to seek or give care and to shop for essentials.
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant, however, identified a new trend in people flouting the lockdown orders.
She said that a trend was emerging where people would visit each others’ homes under the guise of “providing care”. But she said that was not permitted under the rules.
“It is not a discretionary visit. It is not because the person wants to see you,” Chant said.
“It is because you absolutely need to be there to either deliver food, check something, fix something, feed them.”
There were 38 new local cases of COVID reported by NSW Health on Thursday morning.
Of those, 21 had been active in the community for at least part of their isolation period.
Chant added that the virus was spreading from household to household, asking people to “redefine” their family to people they lived with.
“What we are asking people to do is to redefine the sense of family. The family unit is the household,” she said.