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It’s bubble bliss • Issue No 90 • Newcastle’s favourite community newspaper • October 2021 •
After 7 weeks of staying at home, isolated from their friends, young people aged 18 years and under who live in stay-at-home areas across NSW are able to create a bubble of three friends and visit each other’s homes for play and activity. ‘Friends bubbles’ as they are known, are subject to the following conditions: Each child is allowed to have two designated friends come to their house. These two friends must always be the same, creating a three-person ‘friends bubble’; All people 18 years and over in all the households must be fully vaccinated; The friends must reside within 5km of each other or in the same LGA and if parents/carers are dropping children off, they must not stay to interact with other parents or carers. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that the strong vaccination rate across NSW has allowed the changes to support the wellbeing of young people. “Parents and children have had a difficult few months, trying to balance both work, often from home, as well as home schooling,” Ms Berejiklian said. (continued p5)
(L to R) Nate, Tilly and Riley, all of Lambton, enjoyed the ‘friends bubble’ during the school holidays
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