Australia’s largest city, Sydney, recorded the deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, as Melbourne residents face a night curfew and two weeks of closure amid a surge in infections. Sydney is in the eighth week of the lockdown and is at the center of Australia’s third wave of COVID-19, which has the potential to push the country’s 2 trillion Australian dollars (1.5 trillion US dollars) economy into its second recession in many years. New South Wales Governor Gladys Berejiklian said that in the past 24 hours, 7 people in Sydney have died of COVID-19, surpassing the state’s record at the beginning of this month.
The highest single-day increase since the pandemic began. “Every death is a person with a relative who died in a miserable environment. We express our condolences to all relatives and family members.” The authorities also confirmed the death of a 15-year-old boy from Sydney who had pneumococcal meninges. Inflammation and COVID-19.
Australia deployed 500 soldiers to aid New South Wales last month. Since only 26% of people over the age of 16 are fully vaccinated, Australia is vulnerable to the highly contagious Delta variant, which has been spreading across the country. Although Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Darwin, which began to restrict restrictions on Monday, were blocked, the facts have proved that these cases are difficult to fight. Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews stated that Melbourne will now remain in lockdown until September 2 when 22 new coronaviruses are registered. -19 cases. There will also be a curfew for Melbourne’s 5 million residents.
The capital, Canberra, recorded 19 new cases. This was the largest increase in cases in a single day on Monday as it extended the lockdown by two weeks. In June, the unemployment rate reached 4.9%, the lowest level in more than a decade, but many of its most populous cities are located on the east coast. Now locked in, economists expect high prices. The outbreak and the slow introduction of vaccines have put pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who must return to public opinion polls before May 2024.
Morrison said on Sunday that Australia said on Sunday that it had purchased about 1 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19. Vaccines in Poland. , Who has acted quickly to purchase excess supplies. Morrison declined to specify how much Australia paid for these vaccines, which is in addition to the 40 million doses his government ordered from Pfizer. Morrison said that more than half of the vaccine from Poland will be used to vaccinate people between 20 and 39 years old in Sydney’s worst-hit suburbs.
