Sydney goes into lockdown as Delta variant surges
3 years, 6 months ago

Sydney goes into lockdown as Delta variant surges

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sydney and some surrounding areas entered a two-week lockdown on Saturday as authorities struggle to control an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta Covid-19 variant. “Even though we don’t want to impose burdens unless we absolutely have to, unfortunately this is a situation where we have to,” said New South Wales state premier, Gladys Berejiklian. Saturday’s lockdown in New South Wales will also include the regions of Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong, which surround Sydney, a city of 5 million people.

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New Zealand, Australia travel bubble suspended as COVID continues
3 years, 3 months ago

New Zealand, Australia travel bubble suspended as COVID continues

Al Jazeera  

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the country is within sight of eliminating Delta but travel restrictions to Australia extended until November. New Zealand has suspended quarantine-free travel with Australia for a further eight weeks, extending a halt in the so-called travel bubble between both countries, as they deal with fresh outbreaks of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. New …

New Zealand extends lockdown in virus-hit Auckland
3 years, 3 months ago

New Zealand extends lockdown in virus-hit Auckland

Deccan Chronicle  

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's largest city of Auckland will remain in strict Covid-19 lockdown for at least another week as a Delta variant outbreak "rumbles along", Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday. Ardern said the city's two million residents needed to abide by stay-at-home orders because of the emergence of several "mystery cases" which had not yet been linked to existing …

Coronavirus Australia: Thousands of regional NSW residents will be freed from lockdown this Saturday
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Thousands of regional NSW residents will be freed from lockdown this Saturday

Daily Mail  

Thousands of regional NSW residents can forward to eased restrictions and being freed from lockdown within days. Tourist mecca Byron Bay is among the regions coming out of lockdown Venues including hospitality, retail stores and gyms: · Hospitality venues can reopen subject to one person per 4sqm inside and one person per 2sqm outside, with standing while drinking permitted outside. …

Australian hospitals set up TENTS amid patient influx and New Zealand PM defends 'Covid zero' policy
3 years, 4 months ago

Australian hospitals set up TENTS amid patient influx and New Zealand PM defends 'Covid zero' policy

Daily Mail  

Major hospitals in Australia have become so over-run that they have been forced to set up emergency outdoor tents to help deal with a rise in Covid-19 patients. The desperate move came as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defended her 'Covid zero' elimination strategy amid fears an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant has rendered the policy ineffective. …

Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging paths
3 years, 4 months ago

Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging paths

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in …

NSW records its worst day of the COVID-19 pandemic so far against a backdrop of curfews, police and protests
3 years, 4 months ago

NSW records its worst day of the COVID-19 pandemic so far against a backdrop of curfews, police and protests

ABC  

For as long as Sydney has been in lockdown, commentators — including Premier Gladys Berejiklian's interstate counterparts — have loudly called for tougher restrictions, lamenting what they saw as "lockdown lite". West and south-west Sydney are bearing the brunt of the state's COVID-19 response, with nearly all of the new restrictions only applicable to residents in "local government areas of …

COVID: Sydney lockdown extended, masks required outside
3 years, 4 months ago

COVID: Sydney lockdown extended, masks required outside

India TV News  

A lockdown in Australia’s largest city was extended throughout September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors. New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600. Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region: …

Sydney extends Covid-19 lockdown until September-end; night curfew in some areas
3 years, 4 months ago

Sydney extends Covid-19 lockdown until September-end; night curfew in some areas

Live Mint  

SYDNEY: Australian authorities on Friday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney until the end of September and introduced a night curfew in the city's worst-affected suburbs, after nearly two months of curbs failed to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian also announced the city's 5 million residents must wear a mask as soon …

Andrew Barr has long avoided criticising Gladys Berejiklian's handling of NSW's Delta outbreak — but that all changed yesterday
3 years, 4 months ago

Andrew Barr has long avoided criticising Gladys Berejiklian's handling of NSW's Delta outbreak — but that all changed yesterday

ABC  

If there's one thing we have learned from this pandemic, it's that a lot can change in a week. Meanwhile, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr consistently refused to be drawn on whether he thought the Berejiklian government should have taken more decisive action earlier in the Delta outbreak. But that didn't stop NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro from stating a …

NSW residents slam deputy premier for announcing regional lockdown in a TWEET
3 years, 4 months ago

NSW residents slam deputy premier for announcing regional lockdown in a TWEET

Daily Mail  

The whole of NSW will be plunged into lockdown from 5pm Saturday with residents slamming the move being announced on Twitter hours after the state's highly televised Covid press conference. Deputy Premier John Barilaro announced the restrictions would last for one week for all of regional NSW on Twitter on Saturday afternoon - two hours before the lockdown was due …

NSW COVID-19 lockdown laws tightened, restricting travel from Greater Sydney after crisis Cabinet meeting
3 years, 4 months ago

NSW COVID-19 lockdown laws tightened, restricting travel from Greater Sydney after crisis Cabinet meeting

ABC  

Greater Sydney residents will need a permit to leave the region, under a swathe of new rules to tighten the state's lockdown laws. Key points: Under new rules, people from Greater Sydney can't travel to their holiday home Under new rules, people from Greater Sydney can't travel to their holiday home Anyone who needs to isolate while awaiting COVID test …

Australia Tightens Covid-19 Curbs as Brisbane Extends Lockdown, Army Patrols Sydney
3 years, 5 months ago

Australia Tightens Covid-19 Curbs as Brisbane Extends Lockdown, Army Patrols Sydney

News 18  

Australia’s Queensland state on Monday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to enforce stay-at-home rules as Australia struggles to stop the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreading. Queensland said it had detected 13 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours – the biggest one-day rise the state has recorded in …

No end in sight for COVID 'Phase A' on Australia's path out of lockdowns
3 years, 5 months ago

No end in sight for COVID 'Phase A' on Australia's path out of lockdowns

ABC  

The week began with a warning and then a tragedy, and ended with a reality check. An ADF soldier on patrol with police in Sydney during a previous lockdown in April 2020.. "It's no different to what we saw in Melbourne last year where the police worked hand in glove with the military to ensure they could have that intelligence-based …

South-east Queensland is going into lockdown: Here are some of the COVID-19 restrictions
3 years, 5 months ago

South-east Queensland is going into lockdown: Here are some of the COVID-19 restrictions

ABC  

Following news of six locally acquired cases of the Delta strain being reported in Queensland, Deputy Premier Steven Miles has announced 11 local government areas in south-east Queensland will go into lockdown on Saturday. There are 11 LGAs in south-east Queensland which will go into lockdown from Saturday afternoon, they are: Brisbane City Moreton Bay Regional Council Gold Coast Ipswich …

The Latest: Sydney to remain in lockdown as cluster grows
3 years, 5 months ago

The Latest: Sydney to remain in lockdown as cluster grows

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The New South Wales state government said the lockdown …

Sydney lockdown extended four weeks as Covid delta surge worsens
3 years, 5 months ago

Sydney lockdown extended four weeks as Covid delta surge worsens

Live Mint  

Sydney’s month-long lockdown will be extended by at least another four weeks, with Australian authorities failing to flatten an outbreak of daily Covid-19 cases that on Wednesday surged to another record. Berejiklian has been criticized by some health experts and political rivals who say she was too slow to implement lockdown in the city of 6 million people, in a …

Do sudden, sharp lockdowns help to control the Delta COVID-19 variant?
3 years, 5 months ago

Do sudden, sharp lockdowns help to control the Delta COVID-19 variant?

ABC  

As Victoria and South Australia emerge from snap lockdowns this morning, the country's lived experience seems to indicate fast, hard lockdowns are the only effective tool to stop the highly-infectious Delta coronavirus variant spreading while we wait for our population to be vaccinated. Key points: States that lockdown within two days of transmission can lift restrictions sooner, data shows Delay …

Coronavirus Australia: Millions of Victorians to be RELEASED from lockdown as Sydney cases soar
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Millions of Victorians to be RELEASED from lockdown as Sydney cases soar

Daily Mail  

Victorians are set to be released from their fifth lockdown Victorians are on track to throw off the shackles of their fifth Covid lockdown on Wednesday, but the nightmare is only just beginning for Sydneysiders who could remain under stay-at-home orders until at least mid-September. NSW government has made a request for financial modelling to assess the devastating effect of …

COVID updates: NSW renews pleas for Pfizer doses as Delta cases hit new record despite Sydney lockdown — as it happened
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID updates: NSW renews pleas for Pfizer doses as Delta cases hit new record despite Sydney lockdown — as it happened

ABC  

You may have seen those videos posted a little earlier, but several people have been arrested as thousands of anti-lockdown protesters breached COVID-19 restrictions and gathered in Sydney's CBD. People in Greater Sydney and its surrounds have been living in lockdown for exactly four weeks, as an outbreak of the Delta COVID-19 continues to spread. Protesters shouted "freedom" as they …

Gladys Berejikilian hints what the magic number will be for the lockdown to be lifted Sydney Covid
3 years, 5 months ago

Gladys Berejikilian hints what the magic number will be for the lockdown to be lifted Sydney Covid

Daily Mail  

The New South Wales Premier announced 124 new cases on Thursday morning, with a worrying 48 infectious in the community and 57 have still yet to be linked to known clusters Gladys Berejiklian has hinted at the magic number of cases Sydney needs to reach to end its lockdown as she says a review will be conducted to assess the …

First regional lockdown in NSW as Delta strain of COVID-19 slips the Greater Sydney cordon
3 years, 5 months ago

First regional lockdown in NSW as Delta strain of COVID-19 slips the Greater Sydney cordon

ABC  

Parts of NSW's Central West are waking to a snap COVID-19 lockdown after cases leaked out of Greater Sydney’s growing Delta variant outbreak. Key points: Factory worker at Blayney in the NSW Central West tests positive The factory is now closed for cleaning as managers await test results for other workers Five sites in Orange named as venues of concerns …

South Australia 'moves into lockdown' after five COVID cases associated with Modbury Hospital cluster
3 years, 5 months ago

South Australia 'moves into lockdown' after five COVID cases associated with Modbury Hospital cluster

ABC  

South Australia has now entered lockdown, after health authorities confirmed the state's outbreak is the Delta strain. Key points: A fifth COVID case has been detected in South Australia The state went into lockdown from 6:00pm Schools will be closed from tomorrow They have so far identified five cases linked to the current cluster. A fourth case was announced on …

On-edge region appeals for better COVID protection from Sydney, fearing Delta outbreak 'a matter of time'
3 years, 5 months ago

On-edge region appeals for better COVID protection from Sydney, fearing Delta outbreak 'a matter of time'

ABC  

Central West locals are taking drastic steps to avoid people from Greater Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown zone, worrying it's just a matter of time before a visitor from across the Blue Mountains sets off an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant. Key points: People living just outside Greater Sydney want police border checkpoints to monitor travellers The Lithgow mayor is …

Lockdown returns in Australia’s Melbourne due to growing Covid clusters
3 years, 5 months ago

Lockdown returns in Australia’s Melbourne due to growing Covid clusters

India TV News  

Amid concern over rising Covid cases in Australia, country's largest city Melbourne has been put under 5-day strict lockdown, starting tonight. Melbourne’s fifth lockdown of the pandemic will apply across Victoria state, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday. A three-week lockdown of Sydney and surrounding communities in New South Wales state had been due to end on Friday. Health …

Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown likely to be extended — but no-one knows when it will need to end
3 years, 5 months ago

Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown likely to be extended — but no-one knows when it will need to end

ABC  

The Premier Gladys Berejiklian is expected to officially announce today that the lockdown in Greater Sydney will be extended. The lockdown affecting Greater Sydney and its surrounds was tightened last week, and Dr Stanaway said she expected to see whether the tougher restrictions had slowed transmission over the next few days. Yesterday, after Ms Berejiklian and Prime Minister Scott Morrison …

New COVID-19 restrictions for NSW now apply — here's what you need to know
3 years, 6 months ago

New COVID-19 restrictions for NSW now apply — here's what you need to know

ABC  

The COVID-19 outbreak in NSW is growing despite two weeks of lockdown and Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she has "no option" but to implement tighter restrictions. In a bid to "crush" the Delta variant, new social distancing restrictions now apply in Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour. The new COVID-19 restrictions Only two people can gather …

Australia's largest city Sydney locks down for third week
3 years, 6 months ago

Australia's largest city Sydney locks down for third week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sydney’s two-week lockdown has been …

Lockdown extended as Sydney records new Covid-19 cases
3 years, 6 months ago

Lockdown extended as Sydney records new Covid-19 cases

Daily Mail  

Five million Greater Sydney residents will be locked down for an extra seven days as the Covid Delta variant continues to spread around the city with 27 new cases on Wednesday. Many of the new cases were recorded in Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool and Fairfield as the so-called Bondi cluster spread from the city's east to the west George street in Sydney's …

How Sydney's lockdown has affected the spread of the coronavirus outbreak
3 years, 6 months ago

How Sydney's lockdown has affected the spread of the coronavirus outbreak

ABC  

As Sydneysiders face another week in lockdown, cases are still rumbling along in the community. "We know definitely that the lockdown has been successful in not exponentially increasing the rate of disease," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said yesterday. Tougher lockdown rules might not help It's not clear that tougher lockdown rules would put a lot more downward pressure on the …

Australia's Largest City Sydney Locks Down For A Third Week
3 years, 6 months ago

Australia's Largest City Sydney Locks Down For A Third Week

NPR  

Australia's Largest City Sydney Locks Down For A Third Week Enlarge this image toggle caption Rick Rycroft/AP Rick Rycroft/AP CANBERRA, Australia — Sydney's two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australia population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday. "The situation we're in now is largely because we haven't been able to …

Coronavirus Australia: Sydney lockdown to be extended until July 16 - schools closed, masks to stay
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Sydney lockdown to be extended until July 16 - schools closed, masks to stay

Daily Mail  

Sydney residents vented their anger this morning as the city's lockdown was extended for another seven days as the Covid Delta variant continued to spread. The situation is also worsening in Sydney's west, with customers of the Coles at Westfield Parramatta and Country Growers grocery store told to isolate for 14 days regardless of whether they get a negative Covid …

NSW records 18 new COVID-19 cases, lockdown decision likely on Wednesday
3 years, 6 months ago

NSW records 18 new COVID-19 cases, lockdown decision likely on Wednesday

ABC  

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she hopes to announce on Wednesday whether lockdown will be extended or not. Key points: NSW recorded 18 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases overnight There were 32,136 tests conducted, down from 52,000 tests on Monday Greater Sydney's lockdown is scheduled to end on Friday, July 9 Ms Berejiklian said decisions would be made "as late …

Sydney braces for rise in COVID-19 cases as Delta outbreak worsens
3 years, 6 months ago

Sydney braces for rise in COVID-19 cases as Delta outbreak worsens

Live Mint  

Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, on Friday warned residents to brace an increase in COVID-19 infections over the next few days as it reported the biggest daily rise in locally acquired cases recorded so far this year. Country-wide, Australia is fighting outbreaks of the highly infections Delta variant simultaneously in three state capital cities, meaning nearly half of …

Over 10 million Australians in lockdown as country battles Delta variant flare-ups; Brisbane issues stay-at-home orders
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 10 million Australians in lockdown as country battles Delta variant flare-ups; Brisbane issues stay-at-home orders

Firstpost  

Brisbane is the fourth major city after Sydney, Perth and Darwin to have ordered a lockdown in recent days Brisbane: More than 10 million Australians have been ordered into lockdown as coronavirus cases spread across the country, and Brisbane on Tuesday became the fourth major city to issue stay-at-home orders. The three-day snap lockdown for Brisbane, starting on Tuesday evening, …

What needs to happen to end Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown
3 years, 6 months ago

What needs to happen to end Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown

ABC  

As the number of COVID-19 infections in New South Wales continues to rise, the state's chief health officer has revealed what will help "turn around" Sydney's outbreak — and it's not just about falling case numbers. Key points: Chief health officer Kerry Chant wants to see all new cases already in isolation High testing numbers, particularly among those who visited …

How the Delta variant snapped most of Australia back into COVID restrictions in a weekend
3 years, 6 months ago

How the Delta variant snapped most of Australia back into COVID restrictions in a weekend

ABC  

It seemed on Friday afternoon that New South Wales had taken a significant step towards curbing the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19. NSW expands lockdown Three hours after Saturday morning's press conference, NSW authorities emerged from the crisis Cabinet meeting. State of Origin goes ahead despite Delta case Meanwhile in Queensland, positive cases of COVID-19 had been out in …

COVID-19 lockdown expanded to Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Wollongong, Shellharbour and Central Coast
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 lockdown expanded to Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Wollongong, Shellharbour and Central Coast

ABC  

Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour are in lockdown until 11.59pm on Friday July 9. Key points: The chief health officer says a wider lockdown is the only way the state can get back to zero community transmission Social distancing restrictions have been introduced for parts of regional NSW not covered by the new lockdown Anyone …

Four Sydney LGAs placed in lockdown as NSW records 22 new COVID-19 cases
3 years, 6 months ago

Four Sydney LGAs placed in lockdown as NSW records 22 new COVID-19 cases

ABC  

People who live or work in four Sydney local government areas — including the CBD — will go into lockdown after NSW recorded 22 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The affected local government areas are: Waverley Woollahra Randwick City of Sydney People who live in those areas, or have worked in those areas in the past fortnight, …

NSW COVID-19 latest restrictions explained as parts of Sydney go into lockdown
3 years, 6 months ago

NSW COVID-19 latest restrictions explained as parts of Sydney go into lockdown

ABC  

More than 1 million Sydneysiders have been plunged into a week-long lockdown as the city's COVID-19 outbreak spreads to several suburbs. If you live in, or have worked in these four LGAs in the past fortnight, you are subject to the new public health orders: City of Sydney Waverley Woollahra Randwick Until at least 11:59pm on Friday, July 2, anyone …

Australia: Fourth round of lockdown in Melbourne as new Covid infection cluster grows
3 years, 7 months ago

Australia: Fourth round of lockdown in Melbourne as new Covid infection cluster grows

India TV News  

Australia’s second-largest city was set to enter its fourth lockdown Thursday as concern grew over the rapid spread of infections from a coronavirus variant. The seven-day lockdown for Melbourne and the rest of Victoria state comes after a new cluster in the city rose to 26 infections, including a person who was in intensive care. Health Minister Greg Hunt described …

Snap Lockdown Ordered in Australia's Brisbane After Virus Outbreak
3 years, 9 months ago

Snap Lockdown Ordered in Australia's Brisbane After Virus Outbreak

News 18  

More than two million people in Brisbane were ordered into a three-day lockdown Monday after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia’s third-biggest city. It is the second snap lockdown of Brisbane and the city’s surrounds this year, coming after seven people tested positive for Covid-19 — the first significant community outbreak in Australia in weeks. I don’t …

Australian city Melbourne begins 3rd lockdown due to cluster
3 years, 10 months ago

Australian city Melbourne begins 3rd lockdown due to cluster

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Melbourne Australia’s second-largest city, will …

Covid: Sydney cut off from rest of Australia following outbreak
4 years ago

Covid: Sydney cut off from rest of Australia following outbreak

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Authorities are trying to get to grips with the …

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