The lockdown in Australia continues, but does not stop the Delta variant
Australia's brief lockdown of Melbourne and the surrounding state of Victoria ended three weeks ago, but a new outbreak has now emerged in Sydney, which has inspired the Australian government to impose a new lockdown covering the island country's most populous remote city. To this are being added further hearths
As with other outbreaks, Australian authorities have confirmed that the Delta variant is responsible for most of the new cases, which are rapidly approaching 100, while the Delta variant cases in the country have now reached triple digits. According to the latest government report of New South Wales, the state in which Sydney is located, there are at least 130 "active local cases" in the Australian state, as of 2000 local time on Sunday 27 June.
The NSW government website orders everyone in the Greater Sydney area to "stay home unless you have a reasonable reason",
“From 6pm [local time] on Saturday 26 June 2021, if you have been to Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour for any reason from Monday 21 June 2021, you must follow the stay at home rules and you must keep following them for 14 days after you were last in Greater Sydney. "
Of course, these further lockdowns have exasperated citizens and business owners who are losing all faith in the government. What do restaurateurs do? Do they convert to home deliveries? The following sign was displayed in a shop in the Bondi neighborhood of Sydney:
"Dear customers, we will be closed for the foreseeable future because Scott Morrison is a useless head of c..o who has ordered just enough vaccine to vaccinate 4% of the population 18 months in a pandemic," reads the sign, shared on Twitter . this is the thinking of Australians.
It is easy for the Australian federal government to control movements from abroad and yet this was not enough to control the spread of Covid-19, as it was not, a century ago, to contain the Spanish. The impact was delayed, but not eliminated. Yet the lockdown was fierce, draconian, and so was the border blockade, albeit late, but the covid returns with the austral winter. Another demonstration that epidemics are cured, not avoided with lockdowns.
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