Of the new cases, all but one was linked to the current outbreak, officials said.
Nine locally acquired cases were detected in Victoria from 13 a day earlier, in line with a downward trend and taking total cases to more than 80. "The speed with which this has moved through the Victorian community confirms that we did the right thing to lock down, and it also sadly confirms that we need more time." "There are chains of transmission that are not yet contained that we don't know about and if we would open up we would see how quickly this runs, we see how challenging this can become in a very short space of time," Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews said in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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However the virulent Delta strain and a low COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Australia, with just over 14% of adults fully vaccinated, is testing health services.Ī five-day snap lockdown in Victoria state was due to end Tuesday night, but authorities extended restrictions by seven days until July 27 as officials sought more time to quell an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant. Reuters CANBERRA About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of. Since the pandemic began, it has reported just over 32,000 COVID-19 cases and 915 deaths. Australia's most populous state New South Wales (NSW), of which Sydney is the capital, is battling the worst COVID-19 outbreak of this year, with total cases exceeding 1,400 since the first case. Five deaths have been reported during the latest outbreak.Īustralia has used a system of lockdowns, tough social distancing rules and swift contact tracing to suppress the infection rate to a fraction of the levels recorded in other jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and United States. The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria, when a man who had returned from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, tested positive for the virus. Ninety-five COVID-19 cases are now in hospitals in NSW, with 27 in intensive care, 11 of whom are on ventilators. The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). "We are seeing more hospitalisations, more admissions to ICU, more people on ventilators - we have to stop the spread of COVID," NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said in Sydney on Tuesday, referring to intensive care units (ICU). The longest Covid-19 lockdown has finally ended after one of Australia 's largest cities emerged from almost nine gruelling months in and out of restrictions.
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