Australia’s Biggest City Toughens Harsh Stay-at-Home Lockdown Orders
(AFP) — Australia’s biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the “most concerning day of the pandemic” so far.
After months of pursuing a “Covid Zero” strategy, Australia has been struggling to bring a resurgence of coronavirus cases under control, with more than 10 million people under lockdown in its two largest cities and the capital Canberra.
Residents of Sydney, going into an eighth week under stay-at-home orders, will now face heftier fines for flouting rules or lying to contact tracers, with current restrictions proving insufficient to stop the spread.
Lockdown restrictions were also extended across the entire state of New South Wales for the first time this year, coming into force on Saturday afternoon for at least seven days.
Sydney lockdown fines increased to $3,700, stay-at-home extended
Residents of Sydney and its home state of New South Wales will now face fines of up to $3,700 for violating coronavirus stay-at-home orders, which were extended Saturday following a record number of daily COVID-19 infections in the area.
Australia becomes the first advanced country to actually copy China’s policy of locking people into their buildings
Australia becomes the first advanced country to actually copy China's policy of sealing people into their rooms, locking hundreds of students in their rooms following a handful of positive COVID test results.t.co/bBtFu63QdC
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