Australian officials warned Sydney residents on Friday to prepare for the surge Coronavirus disease After the country’s largest city recorded a record number of infections for the second day in a row, despite a lockdown for several weeks to eliminate the Delta variant outbreak.
New South Wales Governor Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney: “Based on the trends and progress of the past few days, I expect a higher number of cases in the next few days. I just I hope everyone is ready for this.” State Capital.
As the Delta variant has contributed to the spread of COVID-19, Australia’s third state has announced a lockdown
Sydney has reported a record 279 local cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, up from 259 the day before. New South Wales has reported a record 291 cases, higher than 262, and 1 new death, bringing the total number of cases in the state’s most recent outbreak to 22, all in Sydney.
Of particular concern is that more and more people are testing positive for the highly contagious Delta strain, especially in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney. About one-fifth of Friday’s cases were spent outdoors while contagious.
On Friday, more than 60% of Australia’s 25 million citizens were under strict lockdown in an attempt to contain the latest surge, including the country’s three largest cities, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The current outbreak centered on the Delta strain is testing Australia’s ability to successfully respond to the coronavirus crisis to a large extent, which kept its exposure at a relatively low level, with only more than 35,600 cases and 933 deaths.
However, in the case of slow progress in vaccination, the lockdown was stopped and initiated, and only about 21% of people over 16 years of age were fully vaccinated, which made residents feel frustrated.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come under fire for the slow launch. He blamed the delay on changing medical advice because of concerns that the locally produced AstraZeneca vaccine will produce rare blood clots and the supply of Pfizer vaccines.
Adjacent to New South Wales and with a population of nearly 7 million, Victoria entered its sixth lockdown since the pandemic began on Thursday. Just a few weeks after the last lockdown ended, it shocked residents and triggered opposition in the state capital, Melbourne. Block the assembly.
It reported 6 COVID-19 cases acquired locally on Friday, the day after a few unrelated new infections suddenly appeared in Melbourne, down from 8 cases a day ago.
The state health department said that in Friday’s cases, all cases were related to previously reported cases, but were not isolated during the infection.
In Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, the authorities reported 10 new cases, down from 16 the day before, and added that they hoped that the lockdown would be lifted as planned on Sunday, because with two exceptions, all cases had been tested before they tested positive. Be quarantined.
