The Australian city went into a hard lockdown on June 26 to quash the latest flare-up. The premier of Australia’s NewSouth Wales (NSW) said on Tuesday she aims to decide within the next 24 hours whether to extend a COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney that is due to end on Friday as new infections dropped in the country’s most populous state. Just 18 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases were detected in NSW on Tuesday, half of the previous day’s number. “That will factor into our decision-making as to whether it(the two-week lockdown) finishes on Friday or whether we continue for a period longer,” Ms. Berejiklian told reporters. Of Tuesday’s cases, 16 were either in isolation throughout or for part of their infectious period.

Source: The Hindu July 06, 2021 02:59 UTC