As south-west Sydney continues to record the bulk of COVID-19 cases, scared essential workers — like those employed in local supermarkets — say they are putting their lives at risk every day.
When Raad Skahle watches his staff at his grocery supermarket in Fairfield, it feels like a punch in the gut.About 70 per cent of Fairfield residents leave the LGA for work each day"I know from their faces everyone is scared because we are an open shop with hundreds of customers.According to the 2016 census, the most common industry of employment for people in the Fairfield local government area , in Sydney's south-west, is supermarkets.
The area is at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak, with hundreds of infections of the ultra-transmissible Delta variant identified in the past four weeks. The business owner says it's "common sense" that vaccines are sent to the country's COVID hotspots, where they're most likely to save lives in the immediate future.
"The vaccinations shouldn't just be for Sydney but of course there should be a priority for the city where the virus is spreading now," he said.
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