Brisbane joined Australia’s biggest city of Sydney in lockdown after the discovery of six new cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus in Queensland’s state capital. In Sydney, the epicenter of the county’s outbreak, there were 210 new locally acquired infections in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Friday, state health authorities said. Sydney’s outbreak has put the city into a lockdown that will be implemented for at least nine weeks. There have been 3,190 locally acquired cases reported in the current Sydney outbreak since mid June. Meanwhile, Victoria state’s heath department earlier on Saturday reported two new locally contracted cases of the virus.

Source: Mint July 31, 2021 02:15 UTC