- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that vaccination alone will not end the blockade in Sydney.
- Due to the Delta variant, Covid-19 infections in Sydney are increasing.
- So far, more than 2,500 cases have been detected in the state’s worst outbreak this year.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that vaccination alone will not end the Covid-19 lockdown in Sydney, because residents of the country’s largest city will face another month of severe containment to curb the delta virus. break out.
Morrison said: “I mean, of course it can help… We need to lift the low (vaccination rate), which will definitely help the lockdown efforts, but on its own, it will not stop the lockdown .” Nine pieces of news on Thursday.
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Morrison hopes that extended blockades and stricter movement restrictions in Sydney’s most affected areas will curb the “extremely deadly” delta variant.
In New South Wales, the capital of Sydney, only about 17% of people over the age of 16 have been vaccinated. Although the Greater Sydney area has been under lockdown since June 26, the number of infections is still rising steadily.
In the state’s worst epidemic this year, more than 2500 cases have been detected so far and 165 people have been hospitalized. Fifty-six people are in the intensive care unit, 22 of whom need ventilation.
“What we see are stubborn numbers… We will not pretend that we have all the answers because we don’t,” State Lieutenant Governor John Barillaro told the Nine News.
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A total of 177 cases were detected, most of which occurred in the state capital Sydney on Wednesday-the largest single-day increase since March 2020.
The prolonged blockade of approximately 6 million people in the Greater Sydney area is expected to deal a heavy blow to Australia’s 2 trillion Australian dollars ($1.50 trillion) economy, and many businesses have been forced to close, raising the country’s prospects for the second recession in many years .
Federal Finance Minister Josh Frydenberg said that he expects the national economy to shrink in the September quarter, but hopes that if New South Wales suppresses the epidemic as soon as possible, Australia can avoid a recession.
Friedenberg told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: “For the December quarter, this will largely depend on the success of our largest state economy, New South Wales, in fighting this virus.”
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