Sydney’s five million residents are currently in their third week of a partial lockdown.
Sydney’s five million residents are currently in their third week of a partial lockdown.
A majority of Monday’s cases were family members or close friends of already infected persons.
Lockdown in Sydney and surrounding areas likely to be extended.
Fifty new cases of community transmission reported in Australian city.
Extra police patrols deployed in Australian city to enforce lockdown orders.
New Zealand has suspended quarantine-free travel with New South Wales.
Australian city records increase of 38 new cases in the last 24 hours.
Total infections neared 400 amid the largest outbreak of 2021 in the state, since the first case was detected in the city.
Stay-at-home orders have already been in place in the country’s biggest city for two weeks.
Sydney went into a hard lockdown on June 26 to quash the latest flare-up - an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19.