Gladys Berejiklian has praised Sydney’s response to increased lockdown measures. So why are cases still going up two weeks in?
Images of Sydneysiders out enjoying the sun last weekend suggested the state capital had grown complicit with the spread of the Delta strain. According to NSW police deputy commissioner Gary Worboys, 106 infringement notices were handed out by NSW Police for a number of gatherings across the city overnight.
“I think it’s going to be a number of days before we turn around. And to some extent, we’re trying. The numbers might actually increase because we’re ramping up testing to get ahead of the transmission curve,” Dr Chant said of household transmission on Sunday. The Premier refused to answer questions about Friday’s lockdown deadline, strongly hinting restrictions would remain in place for far longer than the government currently has on paper., Melbourne-based epidemiologist Tony Blakely, who is regularly cited in Australian media, suggested NSW bring in the military to ensure the state complies with lockdown restrictions.
For some, three weeks is all it takes for a carefully built business to hit dire straits. With the state’s Premier unwilling to provide concrete information on the length of the current lockdown period, it appears certain that thousands across the state will be stuck in financial limbo.
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