Mayor welcomes end of Tamworth lockdown

Thursday 9 September, 2021

Tamworth Region Mayor Col Murray has welcomed this morning’s announcement the Tamworth Local Government Area is among those in regional NSW to come out of lockdown at 12.01am Saturday (11 September, 2021).

“I know it is a great relief to our community to learn today the stay-at-home orders about to lift,” he said. “It’s been a very challenging time for everyone and now we can all take the first steps to freedom including the reopening of local businesses which have had to stay closed.

“I know in the lockdown online shopping took off but I ask our community to now turn back to our local businesses for their needs.

“Please shop local – it’s so essential to keep the money in our local economy. It not only supports the businesses you shop at but also the local people who work for them.” 

This morning’s announcement came despite notification of a further positive detection of COVID-19 virus fragments in a sample from the Westdale Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The positive sample was taken on Monday. It is the fifth successive positive sewage detection. Results of the sample taken yesterday is not yet known.

“It is important for anyone in Tamworth with the slightest of symptoms to come forward and get tested at one of our local COVID-19 testing clinics,” he said. “It is only through testing that we can be certain about where the virus is.”

Cr Murray has encouraged any local person who has not had any vaccination for COVID-19 to consider getting one at the Super Sunday Drop-in Vaccination Hub at Tamworth Sports Dome this weekend between 9am and 3pm.

“Getting vaccinated is the most important thing we can all do to get on top of the virus and stay out of lockdown,” he said.