Sydney extends lockdown for one more week; 357 active cases
Kathmandu, July 7. As Australia struggles to check the fresh outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, half of the major cities have announced strict lockdowns.
Seeing the rapid rise of cases in Sydney, the state of New South Wales has announced a one-week extension of Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown. With today’s announcement, the lockdown shall remain in place till July 16.
As per the official record of the National Health Department, 357 people in Sydney are currently infected with the Delta variant and are in isolation.
Media reports suggest that the outbreak sparked by the Delta strain could affect more than 20 million people, 80% of the total population.
The third wave could be extremely dangerous to a country that gained popularity for safely handling the first and second waves.
So far, nearly 9 percent of Australians are vaccinated against the coronavirus. A very low number when compared to the USA and UK that have vaccinated nearly half of their people.
Australia is preparing to inoculate the elderly groups with AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines.
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