PORTAL RIGHT – For the first time during the daily case pandemic Covid-19 Australia on Friday, September 10, 2021 reached 1,900 cases. High daily cases triggered varian Delta which is highly contagious and continues to spread in Sydney and Melbourne which are under lockdown.
Australia is in the grips of a third wave of infections with the Delta outbreak forcing officials to abandon strategy zero Covid-19 them to suppress the virus.
Reported by Reuters, New South Wales (NSW) which is the center of the worst outbreak in Australia has reported 1,542 new daily local cases, surpassing the previous high of 1,533 cases last week.
However, the Prime Minister of NSW Gladys Berejiklian stated that the situation was foreseen. According to him, Sydney will not even reach the peak of cases next week.
At that time about 1,156 people were hospitalized in New South Wales, 207 of whom were receiving intensive care, 89 of whom needed ventilators.
Rising cases in Sydney have increased the work of ambulance workers, with the number of patients Covid-19 transported has doubled in the past two weeks to a total of nearly 6,000.
Meanwhile Victoria recorded 334 new confirmed positive cases Covid-19 and became the biggest increase for the year.
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However NSW authorities on Thursday 9 September said Sydney businesses could reopen once 70% of the state’s adult population was fully vaccinated. This figure is a target to be achieved around mid-October.
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