Victoria state looks set to come out of a hard COVID-19 lockdown as planned after reporting fewer new cases
lockdown as planned on Tuesday after reporting fewer new cases, while neighbouring New South Wales rushed to trace thousands after detecting fresh virus clusters.
Sydney, Australia’s largest city and state capital of New South Wales, is into its fifth week of a lockdown to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.The lockdown is due to end on Friday but strict stay-home rules could be extended further as daily new cases have stubbornly remained above a hundred, with many still active in the community while infectious.
South Australia, which also registered infections from the Sydney outbreak, is on track to exit its week-long lockdown on Wednesday.
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