Canberra, Australia: Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the country’s slow Covid-19 vaccination rollout.
Due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Melbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane as Australia’s most populous and third most populous cities respectively.
Melbourne and surrounding Victoria Victoria Premiere will remain in lockdown for seven weeks after eight new infections are detected in the city Daniel Andrews Said.
Andrews gave less than four hours’ notice that the state would shut down from 8 p.m. He said his government had no other option as only 20% of Australian adults were fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
“To be really clear, we don’t have enough people who have been vaccinated and so, that’s the only option available to us,” Andrews said. “The time will come when we will have many more options. But he’s not there yet.”
Andrews has accused the neighboring New South Wales state of taking too long to close Sydney after a limousine driver who had been infected while transporting a US aircrew from Sydney airport died on 16 June with the Delta version. had tested positive for
New South Wales on Thursday reported its worst day since the Sydney lockdown began on 26 June with a record 262 new local infections and five deaths.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian Said that four of the dead had not been vaccinated. one had a two-shot single dose astraZeneca Vaccine at the end of May.
Australian authorities have urged people in Sydney not to wait an optimal 12 weeks before taking their second AstraZeneca dose.
“Anyone who has not died has not received both doses of the vaccine. I cannot stress enough how important it is for people of all ages to come forward and get vaccinated,'” Berejiklian said.
astraZeneca and pfizer There are only vaccines available in Australia.
There have been 21 COVID-19 deaths in Sydney since the latest outbreak began. There have been 78 confirmed deaths in New South Wales since the pandemic began.
The government reported 262 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period. The other six cases were diagnosed in hotel quarantine and are not considered to be a threat to the community.
When Victoria ended its fifth lockdown last week, Andrews said she believed the state was the only jurisdiction in the world that had twice beat Delta’s outbreak.
Melbourne was the Australian epicenter of the pandemic last year, when new infections reached 725 a day in August. Of Australia’s 925 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began, 820 have been in Victoria.
Officials were confident on Thursday that Brisbane and surrounding cities in the state of Queensland would end the eight-day lockdown as planned on Sunday.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Janet Young said that efforts to suppress the spread have exceeded expectations.
All 16 new locally acquired cases reported on Thursday have been directly linked to known risk sites.
But doubts are growing that Sydney’s lockdown will end as planned on August 28 as the number of cases continues to rise.
Due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Melbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane as Australia’s most populous and third most populous cities respectively.
Melbourne and surrounding Victoria Victoria Premiere will remain in lockdown for seven weeks after eight new infections are detected in the city Daniel Andrews Said.
Andrews gave less than four hours’ notice that the state would shut down from 8 p.m. He said his government had no other option as only 20% of Australian adults were fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
“To be really clear, we don’t have enough people who have been vaccinated and so, that’s the only option available to us,” Andrews said. “The time will come when we will have many more options. But he’s not there yet.”
Andrews has accused the neighboring New South Wales state of taking too long to close Sydney after a limousine driver who had been infected while transporting a US aircrew from Sydney airport died on 16 June with the Delta version. had tested positive for
New South Wales on Thursday reported its worst day since the Sydney lockdown began on 26 June with a record 262 new local infections and five deaths.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian Said that four of the dead had not been vaccinated. one had a two-shot single dose astraZeneca Vaccine at the end of May.
Australian authorities have urged people in Sydney not to wait an optimal 12 weeks before taking their second AstraZeneca dose.
“Anyone who has not died has not received both doses of the vaccine. I cannot stress enough how important it is for people of all ages to come forward and get vaccinated,'” Berejiklian said.
astraZeneca and pfizer There are only vaccines available in Australia.
There have been 21 COVID-19 deaths in Sydney since the latest outbreak began. There have been 78 confirmed deaths in New South Wales since the pandemic began.
The government reported 262 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period. The other six cases were diagnosed in hotel quarantine and are not considered to be a threat to the community.
When Victoria ended its fifth lockdown last week, Andrews said she believed the state was the only jurisdiction in the world that had twice beat Delta’s outbreak.
Melbourne was the Australian epicenter of the pandemic last year, when new infections reached 725 a day in August. Of Australia’s 925 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began, 820 have been in Victoria.
Officials were confident on Thursday that Brisbane and surrounding cities in the state of Queensland would end the eight-day lockdown as planned on Sunday.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Janet Young said that efforts to suppress the spread have exceeded expectations.
All 16 new locally acquired cases reported on Thursday have been directly linked to known risk sites.
But doubts are growing that Sydney’s lockdown will end as planned on August 28 as the number of cases continues to rise.
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