However, it expanded a list of local government areas within the city where the ban would stay because of the prevalence of Covid-19 cases there. To minimize the economic impact, the NSW government said it would lift a ban on non-occupied construction in most of Sydney. The extension turns what was initially intended to be a “snap” lockdown of Australia’s most populous city into one of the country’s longest since the start of the pandemic, and may spark the second recession of the 2 trillion Australian dollar ($1.47 trillion) economy in two years, according to economists. In one case, a mourning ceremony attended by 50 people in violation of lockdown rules resulted in 45 infections, she said. Sydney Covid cases expected to rise after anti-lockdown protest as two charged for allegedly hitting police horse Protesters march through the streets during a 'World Wide Rally For Freedom' anti-lockdown rally in Sydney, Saturday, July 24, 2021. “We have to deal with the cards before us and the situation before us and that is why we have taken the action we have.”īerejiklian added that police would boost enforcement of wide-ranging social distancing rules and urged people to report suspected wrongdoing, saying “we cannot put up with people continuing to do the wrong thing because it is setting us all back.” “I am as upset and frustrated as all of you that we were not able to get the case numbers we would have liked at this point in time but that is the reality,” said NSW State Premier Gladys Berejiklian at a televised news conference.
Of particular concern, at least 46 of the new cases were people active in the community before being diagnosed, raising the likelihood of transmission, said the authorities, who have cautioned that active community transmission must be near zero before relaxing the rules. A near-empty street in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
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