Sydney Lockdown Expands to Entire City, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong

Sydney Lockdown Expands to Entire City, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong
A couple ride along the harbour in Sydney on June 26, 2021, as Australia's largest city entered a two-week lockdown to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images
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All of Greater Sydney, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, and Wollongong will go into lockdown from 6 p.m. Saturday until July 9 amid an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the CCP virus in the Australian state.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian called a second press conference on Saturday afternoon, just two hours after she had already fronted the media about the growing cluster, where she foreshadowed the potential for further measures.

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