Sydney COVID-19 lockdown extended for another week, cases rise
Reuters
July 7, 2021 10:37 MYT
July 7, 2021 10:37 MYT
A lone woman wearing a protective face mask pulls a suitcase through the city centre during a lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease outbreak in Sydney, Australia, July 6, 2021. REUTERSpic
SYDNEY: Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday extended a two-week COVID-19 lockdown in state capital Sydney for another week to contain the latest outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.
The stay-home orders, which were scheduled to end Friday, will now end on July 16, NSW state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
Twenty-seven new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were reported in NSW, up from 18 a day earlier, taking the total infections in the outbreak to more than 350.