This content was published on July 11, 2021 – 05:44
Sydney (Australia), Jul 11 (EFE) .- Australia this Sunday registered its first death from covid-19 in almost three months, in the state of New South Wales, where 77 new infections were also detected, the highest number in the world. country on a single day in 2021, despite the lockdown in force since last June 26.
According to the ABC television network, the victim was a nonagenarian woman who died this Saturday in a hospital in Sydney, the second most populous city in the country, after testing positive for covid-19 the day before.
The head of government of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, told the media that infections in Sydney and its surroundings will continue to increase in the coming days after having exceeded the maximum in the state for two consecutive days due to this outbreak, which already exceeds half a thousand in all.
“I would be surprised if there are fewer than 100 additional cases tomorrow at this time,” said the prime minister, who considered “highly unlikely” that the lockdown imposed in and around Sydney since June 26 will be lifted next Friday, as initially planned. .
Berejiklian highlighted the high risk for essential workers, such as laborers or merchants who move through different parts of the city and who spread the disease among their co-workers and family members.
The crisis experienced in Sydney has triggered rumors about a possible closure of the border with the state of Victoria, where Melbourne is located, the first city in the country, especially after the head of the state government, Daniel Andrews, encouraged today to your fellow citizens on vacation there to return home.
The Sydney outbreak forced the state government to confine on June 26 the more than five million inhabitants of the city and the surrounding communities, more than 20% of the 25 million inhabitants of the country, while other regions also ordered localized landfills. , which have already been raised.
As a result of the outbreak in Sydney, Australia, a country that closed its borders in March 2020 and plans to reopen them in mid-2022, reduced the international entries it allows with exemptions from about 6,000 to 3,000, which has complicated the repatriation of more than 34,000 residents and citizens stranded abroad.
The covid-19 outbreak – which according to the financial services consultancy AMP represents daily losses of around 143 million Australian dollars (107 million US dollars or 91 million euros) – has reopened the debate around the vaccination campaign, which is behind the Australian Government’s forecasts.
Australia, which has accumulated more than 31,000 covid-19 infections, including 911 deaths, has vaccinated more than 8.4 million with the first dose, although less than 10% of the population has the complete pattern. EFE
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