Sydney Preparing to deploy hundreds Soldier Help implement the strictest and longest lockdown Coronavirus-19 Pandemic Because the number of infections has remained high.
During the highly spreading delta virus outbreak, the city of 5 million people was ordered to stay at home, and the authorities imposed stricter restrictions on the most affected suburbs, including mandatory testing and wearing masks outdoors.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said at a television news conference that starting from Monday, about 300 Australian military personnel will help the police knock on doors for people who have tested positive for the virus to ensure they are quarantined.
He said: “Last week (meaning) the absolute increase in compliance (enforcement) levels has increased from hundreds to thousands.”
The increased presence of the army and police will cover the breadth of Australia’s largest city, but mainly the eight local government districts in the west of the city-with 2 million people-reporting most of the new cases.
Coronavirus: Sydney’s Delta variant lock-in
Although the number of new cases has declined, state Governor Gladys Berejiklian said that the large number of infected people in the community means that “we expect these numbers to rebound.”
At the same press conference, State Health Secretary Brad Hazzard stated that people wait too long for testing after they develop symptoms, and “we see more and more families with A deceased family member entered”.
The epicenter of the epidemic has passed through Sydney from the wealthy coastal suburb of Bondi to the western suburbs. Local leaders said that local residents felt that the strengthening of law enforcement was unfair.
Steve Christo, the mayor of the Cumberland Local Government District, said: “They have no other idea but to use the army as a last resort because they cannot solve the answers to the problems they created. There are 60% of the 240,000 people there. Residents were born overseas.
He added in a telephone interview: “They are a poor community, they are a fragile community, and they should not be subject to these lockdowns or these long-term and severe measures that are now targeted.”
People living in the western suburbs must stay within three miles of their homes and be tested for the virus every three days in order to be allowed to perform necessary work outside the area.
