NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says Premier Gladys Berejiklian was trying to provide hope when she spoke about easing restrictions at 50 per cent vaccination.
Australia's biggest city, are now in their seventh week of lockdown as the cluster hit 5,805 cases with 32 deaths to date as New South Wales state announced 356 new cases, a fresh record for a Delta-variant outbreak that began in mid-June.
NSW residents could face an even longer wait for freedom after Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant revealed she would prefer to see a vaccine rate of 70 per cent before cutting restrictions.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian dismissed suggestions of curfews or a “ring of steel” around Sydney, arguing that strategies that may have worked in the past are not going to have an effect on the more contagious Delta strain.
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