Melbourne: Australia’s three most populous states of latest South Wales, Victoria and Queensland reported a complete of 282 COVID-19 new locally acquired infections on Sunday, with authorities struggling to quell outbreaks of the Delta variant New South Wales (NSW) reported 262 fresh cases, down from the pandemic high of 319 seen on Saturday, with quite five million people in Sydney regions along the coastline under a lockdown for 6 weeks already.
“I urge everybody to please stick with the principles , the health advice, and only leave home if you absolutely need to ,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. One woman in her 80s has died overnight bringing the entire number of deaths within the current outbreak to twenty-eight .
There are 362 people in hospital in NSW, with 58 in medical care . Of the people in medical care , 54 were unvaccinated Neighbouring Victoria reported 11 new locally acquired coronavirus cases, because the state remains under a seven-day strict lockdown imposed earlier in the week
Queensland recorded nine new local cases, with parts of the state to return out of a lockdown on Sunday, but a fresh three-day lcodown was imposed on the town of Cairns after a report of a case with unknown origin.
With the highly transmissible Delta variant plaguing Australia’s East Coast , states have applied the “go hard, go early” snap lockdown approach, suggested by the federal last week until a minimum of 70% of the population gets vaccinated. Only a few fifth of individuals aged over 16 are fully vaccinated thus far , mainly thanks to scarce supply of Pfizer shots and public unease about the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Sunday the primary million doses of the Moderna vaccine is predicted in September.
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