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NSW sees 30 new Covid cases as Sydney locks down

NSW sees 30 new Covid cases as Sydney locks down
[image: NZ Herald]

The Australian state of New South Wales has reported 30 new Covid cases on the second day of Greater Sydney's two-week lockdown.

An expanded lockdown now covers 5 million people in Greater Sydney.

Cases of the highly infectious Delta variant now stand at 110.

Stay-at-home orders will remain in place until 9 July for all of Greater Sydney and the other specified areas.

Police have said they will use number plate recognition technology to monitor vehicles and ensure people have not strayed out of their lockdown zone.

Australia has consistently maintained very low rates of Covid transmission and this is the first lockdown in Sydney — its largest city - since December.

The outbreak of new infections emerged a week ago in Bondi, the famous beach suburb, and spread first into the city centre and then to its western fringes.

It has been linked to a driver who transported international arrivals from the airport.

[Source: BBC]

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