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UPDATE 3-Sydney to get extra vaccines as COVID cases mount Reuters 8 hrs ago Australia to send 50,000 extra Pfizer doses to Sydney Thousands protest against lockdown in Sydney Victoria logs 12 new local cases in encouraging trend (Adds NSW minister comments on anti-lockdown protest; protests in other states)
By Sonali Paul
MELBOURNE, July 24 (Reuters) - Sydney will get 50,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week to battle its worsening COVID outbreak, Canberra said on Saturday, reversing a rebuff by the Australian government and other states the previous day of a plea for more supplies.
Australia reported 176 new locally acquired COVID cases on Saturday, a third consecutive daily record with nearly all cases in the state of New South Wales, centered in the country s largest city, Sydney.
Covid-19: Australia outbreak worsens in Sydney
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The state of New South Wales recorded a new daily high in coronavirus cases for a third straight day.
Australia s most populous state, New South Wales, on Saturday (July 24) reported a new daily high of Covid-19 infections for a third straight day this year, in a worsening outbreak that the state warned could jeopardise the rest of the country.
New South Wales reported 163 locally acquired cases of Covid-19, up from 136 the previous day, with 37 patients in intensive care, in the outbreak centred in Sydney.
State Health Minister Brad Hazzard renewed a call for other states to give up some Pfizer vaccines so that younger people in Sydney s hot spots could be vaccinated, after having been rebuffed at a national Cabinet meeting on Friday.
Hazzard names Canterbury Bankstown the ‘unhappy winner’ of Sydney ‘case race’
Health Minister Brad Hazzard has named the local government area of Canterbury-Bankstown the ‘unhappy winner’ of Greater Sydney’s ‘case race’ for Saturday.
Brianna McKeeDigital Reporter
July 24, 2021 - 12:25PM
Health Minister Brad Hazzard has revealed Canterbury Bankstown recorded 44 cases on Saturday making the local government area the “unhappy winner” of Greater Sydney’s Saturday “case race”.
It comes as 163 new cases were reported in Greater Sydney on Saturday – the highest daily number of infections since the beginning of the latest outbreak.
Only 45 of the new cases were infectious in the community before testing positive.
Fifty-seven people have been arrested as thousands of anti-lockdown protesters breached Covid-19 restrictions and gathered in Sydney s CBD.
A protester (left) tries to push away a police horse in Sydney, as thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against the city s month-long stay-at-home orders.
Photo: AFP / Steven Saphore
New South Wales (NSW) Police Minister David Elliott said 57 people have been charged after attending an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney today, and that a strike force has been established to identify others who were there.
Officers issued more than 90 infringement notices to people at the demonstration and more arrests are likely. What we saw today was 3500 very selfish boofheads - people that thought the law didn t apply to them, Elliott said.