Category: Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak

Regional New South Wales Released From Lockdown

The week-long lockdown for three regional New South Wales (NSW) towns are being lifted, releasing 60,000 people from the stay-at-home restrictions. The order imposed on Orange City Council, Blayney Shire Council and Cabonne Shire Council areas will be lifted, as scheduled, at 12.01 a.m. on Wednesday, NSW Health said. The towns were plunged into a…


Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak Grows Again to 172 Cases

New South Wales has reported 172 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19—a new daily high—and potentially 79 of those people were infectious in the community for all or part of their infectious period. Greater Sydney and surrounding regions are in lockdown until at least July 31, as health authorities work to contain an outbreak of…


Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak Declared a ‘National Emergency’

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said the Delta variant outbreak of the CCP virus in Sydney had become a “national emergency.” This comes as the number of COVID-19 cases in Sydney rose again in the 24 hour period to 136, with one man dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese…


NSW Premier Declares ‘National Emergency’ Over COVID-19

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said the Delta variant outbreak of the CCP virus in Sydney had become a “national emergency.” “There is no doubt that the numbers are not going in the direction we hoped they would at this stage, and it is fairly apparent we will nowhere close to zero come…


Sydney Cases of COVID-19 Rise Again

New South Wales (NSW) has reported 124 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, the highest daily number since the outbreak began in Sydney in mid-June. At least 70 of those people were in the community for all or part of their infectious period. Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned cases numbers would rise again. “There’s no doubt,…


A Fifth Person Has Died From Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak as NSW Calls for Children to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

A southwest Sydney woman in her 50s has died after contracting COVID-19, becoming the fifth person in NSW to die amid the current outbreak. The Green Valley woman was reportedly linked to the two removalists who travelled to central-west NSW, including to Orange, while one was known to be COVID-positive. Her body was found in…


Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak Stabilising

Premier Gladys Berejiklian of New South Wales (NSW) believes that the Sydney outbreak is stabilising after the number of new local COVID-19 infections has started to level off , but warns the cases are likely to keep bouncing around. NSW recorded 65 new local COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8 p.m. on Wednesday,…


Regional Aussie City Confident COVID-19 Outbreak Contained

Authorities in the regional Australian city of Goulburn are confident they will contain any outbreak of the CCP virus stemming from the essential worker who tested positive on July 13, after it was revealed he did not venture out into the Goulburn community. General manager of the Goulburn Shire Council, Warwick Bennett, told the Goulburn…