Prognosis
Sydney in Two-Week Lockdown as Delta Variant Infections Rise
- Officials impose stricter curbs in attempt to curtail spread
- New infections are putting spotlight on slow vaccine rollout
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Greater Sydney was put into a two-week lockdown to fight an outbreak of the highly-transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus, straining Australia’s so-called “Covid-zero” strategy as vaccinations lag behind other developed nations.
Residents can only go out for reasons such as food shopping, medical care or essential work and education that can’t be done from their own homes, New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Saturday. The decision followed the detection of a dozen more new local infections and increased exposure sites that are complicating contact tracing. The curbs will apply until July 9.