'We're buzzing': Businesses welcome early change to COVID-19 restrictions

Kate McIlwain
Updated February 21 2022 - 8:39am, first published February 17 2022 - 2:48pm
Singing for joy: "It's O-Week next week and students will be able to go out and enjoy themselves and town will be buzzing," The Illawarra hotelier Ryan Aitchison said. Picture: Adam McLean.
Singing for joy: "It's O-Week next week and students will be able to go out and enjoy themselves and town will be buzzing," The Illawarra hotelier Ryan Aitchison said. Picture: Adam McLean.

As the clock ticks over to midnight on Friday, density limits will be removed and singing and dancing will be able to return at pubs and clubs across the Illawarra.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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