Police will target Sydney supermarkets and larger retail outlets in a COVID compliance crackdown focusing on check-in codes and face masks.
NSW commissioner Mick Fuller says there's no reasonable excuse for members of the public not adhering to current health orders.
"Recent heath advice has shown that supermarkets and large retail stores are a known source of concern when it comes to spreading COVID-19," he said in a statement issued on Saturday evening.
The warning follows a threatened anti-lockdown protest in central Sydney failing to materialise as 1300 police officers flooded the precinct, enforcing an exclusion zone.
Taxi and rideshare companies were also banned from entering the city under the threat of heavy fines.
Eight people were arrested and more than 250 penalty notices were issued, although no protest activity came to light anywhere resembling last weekend's scenes of thousands demonstrating in the city centre.
Mr Fuller said under the new compliance regime his troops would take a "zero-tolerance approach to members of the public and businesses breaching these orders".
Businesses failing to comply with the QR checking system will be fined $5000, while people who don't check in or wear a face mask will be fined up to $1000.
NSW recorded 210 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases on Saturday. At least 32 of them were infectious while in the community, while the isolation status of 120 more is still under investigation.
A man in his 60s who died at his southwestern Sydney home became the 14th casualty of the outbreak.
NSW Health says there are 24 virus cases linked to a freight workplace in Sydney's southwest and eight associated with a Pizza venue in Belfield.
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