By this date, Australia has recorded a total of 28,381 COVID cases and 909. More than 3,500 people are currently in hospital, compared with about 2,000 a week ago.Ībout 92 percent of those over the age of 16 have received two vaccine doses, and children aged from 5 – 11 began getting their first doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccination on Monday. Lockdown restrictions progressively implemented by Australian government to. On Friday the Council of Australia Governments agreed that from Monday non-essential gatherings of more than 500 people across Australia should be cancelled.
Morrison insisted the health system was coping. CANBERRA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital.
Some 2,387 have lost their lives to the disease. Sydney’s coronavirus lockdown is being extended for another month, with large swathes of the city facing curfew from Monday, as authorities battle a Delta outbreak that has seen record case. Authorities said the Monday number could be an “underestimate” because some states do not include those who tested positive in at-home rapid antigen tests.Īustralia has now reported 1.04 million cases since the pandemic began two years ago. As the lockdown ends, the state of Victoria has recorded one of its highest daily totals of new coronavirus cases, with 2,232 infections, and 12 deaths reported Thursday. The country confirmed just over 67,000 cases on Monday, compared with just under 100,000 on Sunday. “You’ve got two choices here: you can push through or you can lock down. “Omicron is a gear change and we have to push through,” Morrison told a media briefing in the capital, Canberra. COVID-19 on track to be Australias third leading cause of death in 2022.
On 6 june, both new south wales and victoria reported no new cases for the previous 24 hours, with only queensland and western australia reporting one new case each, the lowest national total since february. COVID-19 lockdown strands 80,000 tourists in Chinas Hawaii. Having vaccinated nearly all its adult population Australia is now trying to live with the virus, but the rapid escalation in cases has put pressure on medical workers and the health system. On 2 june the 7 day victorian lockdown was extended for another 7 days. A serious outbreak of Covid-19 has sparked a new hard lockdown in Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, amid a scandal over quarantine and security breaches at hotels.
The situation is a turnaround for Australia, which suppressed previous waves of the pandemic through lockdowns and strict border controls and quarantines. Australia must “push through” a rapidly-growing Omicron outbreak, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, as the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases breached more than one million, more than half of them recorded in the past week alone.