NSW Premier Declares ‘National Emergency’ Over COVID-19

NSW Premier Declares ‘National Emergency’ Over COVID-19
A person looks out over the Harbour Bridge from Observatory Hill in Sydney, Australia on July 20, 2021. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said the Delta variant outbreak of the CCP virus in Sydney had become a “national emergency.”

“There is no doubt that the numbers are not going in the direction we hoped they would at this stage, and it is fairly apparent we will nowhere close to zero come next Friday,” Berejiklian said.

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