Greater Sydney faces at least two more weeks of lockdown, after 97 new cases of locally acquired cases were reported.
9news reports that of those, 24 cases were infectious while in the community.
That is the key number Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she needs as close to zero as possible before there is any hope of ending the lockdown.
Berejiklian says home learning for hundreds of thousands of school children would continue for at least another two weeks, while warning she had no crystal ball.
The premier also says government mobility data, which is being used to calculate likely lockdown periods, showed too much movement was occurring in the Canterbury Bankstown and Liverpool areas.
She says they will know at the end of two weeks to what extent they need to extend the lockdown, whether there is any chance of face-to-face schooling ending.
The current lockdown settings for what people can and can't do won't change.
The vast majority of cases are being detected in south-west Sydney, with areas of most concern including Fairfield, Roselands, Rosebery, Canterbury, Belmore, Sutherland Shire, the St George area, Windsor, St Ives, Penrith and Bayside. Some experts have predicted the lockdown, now in week three, could last for two months. Cases have climbed as the Delta variant has swept through households, particularly in Sydney's south-west.
[Source: 9news.com.au]
