NSW government criticised on Q+A for not going into COVID lockdown over Bondi cluster of Delta variant

The New South Wales government has got it wrong when it comes to not locking down Sydney due to the Bondi cluster, according to health experts. Key points: Australia's vaccine rollout again came under fire Questions were raised about why NSW locked down the Northern Beaches last year but not the current cluster Fears were raised by health experts that NSW is not on top of the current outbreak Q+A panellists Mary-Louise McLaws and Bill Bowtell criticised the decision of NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant and Premier Gladys Berejiklian not to send Sydney, or at least parts of it, into a snap lockdown to contain the latest outbreak. "We only have one weapon in our armoury unfortunately now that works, and that's, as Mary-Louise McLaws said, a short sharp lockdown." "The Northern Beaches outbreak, I think they went into lockdown fast because of the large numbers at the beginning," Professor McLaws said. "We hear things about 3 per cent of the population, that's just rubbish, because acknowledging what Mary-Louise McLaws said earlier, we're not doing under 16s and we're only doing 50 to 70s in some states."