Panic buying has broken out across Newcastle and the Hunter region after it was announced a snap seven-day lockdown was being imposed in the area due to a fresh outbreak of Covid-19.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian approved a lockdown across the Newcastle and Hunter regions which began at 5pm on Thursday after five school students tested positive.
The local government areas that will be affected are Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Dungog, Singleton and Muswellbrook.
The announcement at 11am gave residents six hours to panic buy, and social media was soon peppered with pictures of shoppers in massive queues throughout shopping centres as they raced in to pick up their groceries.
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Australian governments rush to accelerate reopening “roadmap” despite Delta outbreaks spreading
Just days after the Australian “National Cabinet” announced a premature “roadmap” to end COVID-19 lockdowns, government leaders are laying out plans to further speed up the lifting of safety restrictions, even as outbreaks of the highly dangerous Delta variant continue to run out of control, threatening the populations of Sydney and Brisbane.
The push is being spearheaded by New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian, despite her Liberal-National Coalition state government being directly responsible for the spread of the infections in Sydney. After five weeks of partial lockdowns, more than 200 new cases are still being reported daily, and the total number of cases since the outbreak began on June 16 exceeds 4,000.