In New South Wales, health workers have administered just over 2.7 million vaccine doses, authorities said on Wednesday. Snap lockdowns, speedy contact tracing and tough social distancing rules have otherwise helped Australia keep COVID-19 numbers lower than many other developed countries, with just over 31,300 cases and 912 deaths.īut a sluggish vaccination programme has meant that less than 10% of the population has received two vaccine doses. The outbreak has started to pressure health services, with queues for COVID-19 tests in Fairfield, in Sydney's southwest, stretching for kilometres (miles) overnight due to new health orders requiring people who leave the suburb for work to be tested regularly. The virus appears to have spread to parts of Sydney previously unaffected, and to regional areas, with a case detected in Goulburn, about 200 km (125 miles) southwest. In New South Wales, there are now 71 COVID-19 patients in hospital from the Sydney outbreak, with 20 people in intensive care units, including one person aged in their 20s and two in their 30s. The authorities of a third state, South Australia, said they were trying to piece together the movements of the same furniture movers who travelled there after Victoria, and that the state may impose restrictions on people travelling from Victoria. The Victorian government has announced the State will once again begin a snap lockdown from 11:59pm on Thursday night following 18 new cases of COVID-19. "The next two or three days are going to be absolutely critical." "Collectively, as the Victorian community, I'm confident we can get on top of it but if we have to bring additional weapons., we'll do that," said the state's COVID-19 response commander, Jeroen Weimar. Investigators were checking for clues of possible contacts, but there was no indication of plans for wider movement restrictions. and facing increased social isolation, especially during lockdown. Hundreds of people in Victoria have been ordered into isolation and an apartment block visited by the moving team was locked down. Again, it is a right that may be lawfully restricted in a time of public emergency. Among the seven new cases in the state, one person attended a football match at Melbourne Cricket Ground while contagious, meaning 2,000 people who were in the same members' area needed to get tested, the authorities said.Īmid heightened concern, Victoria said late on Wednesday it would require the state's more than 6 million residents to wear masks indoors, except in private homes, and in outdoor areas where social distancing can not be maintained.
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