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The first regional centre in NSW is now in lockdown. Orange and two neighbouring LGAs were locked down after a worker tested positive at a Nestles processing plant.
14 million Australians are now in lockdown - that is over half of the population.
According to modelling Sydney could be locked down until early September
What's happened to Sweden? No new cases or deaths in the last three days....
Perhaps they just don't publish their data on a daily basis. They have nearly a 1000 cases today but overall they are doing pretty well.
I was surprised because I thought they just let the virus rip with no precautions taken but 1million cases with only 14000 deaths is very good compared to the rest of Europe. They must have a very good health service (and no Boris perhaps?). Their vaccination regime is ramping up exponentially too
The NSW outbreak shows no sign of being under control with 124 cases today. About 100 people are in hospital, I think 14 are on ventilators. This delta strain seems to be affecting young people more than the original strain because half those in hospital are under 50.
On the bright side(?) no-one in hospital has had two doses of the vaccine.
Thank you Scotty for running the slowest vaccine roll out in the OECD. You useless pr**k
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the situation in NSW, particularly in the south-west and western suburbs, was now regarded as a "national emergency" and called on the federal government to refocus the national vaccination strategy.
The NSW government is also expanding its ban on people leaving local government areas for work to Cumberland and Blacktown.
Previously, it had applied to people in Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool.
NSW has recorded 136 new COVID-19 cases and another death linked to the growing outbreak.
Two more deaths reported today in NSW. One was a lady in her 70s but the second was a lady in her 30s with no co-morbities.
Neither was vaccinated (Thank you Scotty) but the second death is more worrying to authorities because it shows this Delta variant affects younger people more seriously than the original strain.
Over 40 people are currently in hospital - only one had received any vaccine and then only one dose