Coronavirus: Sydney in lockdown as Delta variant spreads; record vaccinations may not stop India’s third wave
- People in downtown Sydney and the city’s eastern suburbs are allowed to leave their homes only for essential work, medical reasons or outdoor exercise
- Elsewhere, Japan will provide 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine each to Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
People who live or have worked in the four local government council areas in Sydney in the last two weeks have been ordered to stay at home except for urgent reasons, New South Wales (NSW) state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
People are allowed to leave their homes only for essential work or education, medical reasons, grocery shopping or outdoor exercise.
“We don’t want to see this situation linger for weeks, we would like to see this situation end sooner rather than later,” Berejiklian said.
Twenty-two local cases were reported on Friday, the biggest rise in infections since the first case was detected in Bondi last Wednesday in a limousine driver who transported an overseas airline crew.
Officials have issued health alerts overnight for more than a dozen new venues scattered across Sydney, as total infections in the outbreak topped 60.