In Sydney, Australia, stricter COVID-19 containment measures have been imposed since Saturday as infectious disease cases continued to rise in the third week of the city-wide blockade.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Beregikrian told reporters on Saturday that the new restrictions would come into effect at midnight local time on Saturday and remain in effect until the end of July.
Authorities have ordered construction sites and non-essential businesses to be closed. This is a limitation that also applies to communities around Sydney, NSW.
Stricter COVID-19 lockdowns imposed on Australia’s largest city
Twelve million Australians live under the COVID-19 blockade as the delta variant crisis continues in the two most populous states.
Residents of Fairfield, Canterbury Bankstown and Liverpool, on the outskirts of Sydney, are prohibited from traveling outside the community, unless they are medical professionals or emergency responders.
Vietnam has also reportedly imposed new restrictions as it works on the worst COVID-19 outbreak to date.
The government said on Saturday it would impose a two-week travel limit in 16 southern states from Monday, according to Reuters.
“The brake is to protect people’s health,” the government said in a statement.
Frustration arose among travelers on Saturday the day after Britain announced on Monday that it would cancel plans to ease travel restrictions on the coronavirus. British officials said the plan was scrapped over concerns over the first beta identified in South Africa.
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With the demise of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the country is now planning to start using the Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Modana, Sputnik, Sinovac and Sinovac vaccines.
Travelers arriving from France, even if they are fully vaccinated, must be quarantined for 10 days upon entering the UK, the UK government has said.
Meanwhile, UK Health Minister Sajid Javid, who is leading the country’s response to the coronavirus, said on Saturday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was self-quarantining himself.
Elsewhere, the first 11,000 athletes have just started arriving at the Summer Olympics, which will open in Tokyo next week, but after unidentified athletes in the Athletes’ Village tested positive, the Games Olympics will be a super-broadcaster. It is feared that this is an event because of the coronavirus. The person would not be an athlete, but an outsider helping with the planning of the match.
“This case is one of 15 new positive results between game participants and workers reported on Saturday, the best since the Commission started editing the figures on July 1. These are days,” Kyodo News reported.
According to Kyodo News, “As of July 1, a total of 45 COVID-19 infections have been announced by organizers. ”
The United States is experiencing an “unvaccinated pandemic”
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In the United States, cases and deaths of COVID-19 are on the rise. The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus in unvaccinated people is the main cause of the outbreak.
Four states with low vaccination rates accounted for 40% of new cases last week, but cases are increasing in all 50 states, officials said.
Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Friday last week that an average of 26,000 new cases occur daily in the United States. She said the outbreak was an “unvaccinated pandemic”. Later on Friday, US President Joe Biden reiterated Warrensky’s assessment, saying “the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated.”
A group of international government advisers said they were concerned about England’s plan to lift virtually all pandemic restrictions on Monday. Advisers believe this makes Britain more susceptible to new coronavirus variants and likely turns the country into a place of super-spreaders.
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center said on Saturday that there have been more than 4 million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. According to Johns Hopkins, nearly 190 million cases have been confirmed.
Certain information in this report has been provided by The Associated Press and Reuters.
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