Although the state of Australia’s New South Wales has been in quarantine for ten weeks, the last 24 hours have seen the highest number of new infections and a record number of Covid-19 deaths.
Authorities reported on Friday that 1,431 new cases of domestic infection and one infection from abroad had been detected in the last 24 hours. In turn, 12 Covid-19 patients have died.
The number of new infections registered in New South Wales just a week earlier, for the first time since the pandemic began, exceeded a thousand.
Since the first infected person in the current pandemic outbreak on 16 June, the number of Covid-19 victims in New South Wales has reached 119 and the total number of infected has reached 25,002.
Meanwhile, only 36% of the state’s population is at least 16 years old.
Thanks to particularly strict quarantine restrictions and the almost complete closure of external borders since March last year, Australia has so far managed to cope with the pandemic quite successfully.
However, due to the spread of the Indian or delta virus variant and the initially slow rate of vaccination, a large part of the country’s population has had to return to quarantine.
In total, the number of infections detected in Australia has exceeded 56,500 and the number of Covid-19 victims has exceeded 1,000.
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