Healthcare workers conduct tests at the reopened COVID-19 testing station at Rushcutters Bay, as Sydney heads towards its third week in lockdown. With the backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Rushcutters Bay is at the centre of the city’s wealthy Eastern suburbs, where the current outbreak of the Delta strain started.
The NSW Premier has today announced that Sydney will go into a third week of lockdown as COVID numbers refuse to decline. Yesterday, there were 45,000 tests in NSW. The government is pleading with the public to continue getting tested. There were 27 locally acquired COVID cases counted as of 8pm yesterday. 18 of these cases were linked to a known cases, 11 were close contacts and 7 were household contacts of previously confirmed cases. There are currently 37 cases in hospital, 7 in ICU and 2 ventilated.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’.
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