Can I visit my partner as NSW lockdown suburbs in Sydney are given stay-at-home orders?
Sydneysiders will still be able to visit their partners during Sydneys seven-day lockdown. Four local government areas will be plunged into lockdown from 11.59pm Friday - being Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney. Watch Gladys Berejiklian announce the restrictions in the video above  Under the stay-at-home directives, there are only four essential reasons to leave the home. However, partners who live separate to each other will still be able to visit each other. We always have some components which are around intimate partner visits, and that will extend in this circumstance, Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said. She did, however, warn against leaving the home unless it was absolutely necessary. We are asking the community to work with us, she said. Our contact tracers are getting on top of the venues very quickly, but were still seeing some people who are infectious in the community for a period of time. And this will allow us, its almost a circuit breaker, to give us that time.  The four LGAs impacted by the stay-at-home orders. Credit: Peclet  There were 22 new local cases of COVID-19 on Friday. According to NSW Healths daily release, all but three of those were immediately linked to known outbreaks. The developing Bondi cluster, however, now sits at 65 cases. File image: Partners will still be able to visit each other throughout Sydneys four-suburb, seven-day lockdown. Credit: skynesher / Getty Images  Under the seven-day stay-at-home orders, which come into effect from 11.59pm on Friday, there are only four essential reasons to leave the home.e  They are to seek or give care, to work or study, to exercise outdoors (in groups of no more than 10) and to shop for essentials.