In Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, with Sydney as its capital, 466 new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 have been recorded in the last day, a new one-day record. Most of these cases were in Sydney.
The Prime Minister of New South Wales, Gledis Beredjikljan, said four Covid-19-related deaths had also been recorded in the last day.
With the intensification of quarantine from Monday, all residents of Sydney and its suburbs will have to stay no more than five kilometers from their homes. The current quarantine regulations provide for a distance of up to 10 kilometers.
Fines for violating quarantine rules will also be increased. A fine of A $ 5,000 (€ 3,124) will result in a breach of the self-isolation rules if they relate to a positive test case or to waiting for test results. A fine of 3,000 Australian dollars (1,874 euros) will be imposed if the rule that only two people are allowed to play sports together is violated.
Australia has so far adopted a “zero cowhide” approach, with quarantines and international borders in various cities around the country. This allowed Australians to live relatively normally in a pandemic environment, avoiding high numbers of deaths, but the spread of the delta type raises concerns that the epidemiological situation could worsen and that society would get tired of the current constraints.
Sydney has been in quarantine since late June. Melbourne, which is fighting a smaller outbreak of Covid-19, has been in quarantine since early August.
The quarantine regime began on Thursday in the Australian Capital Territory, which includes the country’s capital, Canberra, where the first local cases of Covid-19 have been registered in more than a year.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been around 38,000 infections and more than 900 deaths in Australia.
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