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Gladys Berejiklian announces record 177 COVID cases, confirms Greater Sydney s lockdown will be extended
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she is upset and frustrated local coronavirus cases have struggled to drop this week - with 177 cases recorded on Wednesday and one death - as she announced lockdown would be lengthened for a further four weeks.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 28, 2021 - 11:00AM
New South Wales has recorded 177 local coronavirus cases – a new record in the state’s latest outbreak – and an additional death as Greater Sydney’s lockdown is extended for a further four weeks until August 28.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Wednesday morning announced, “it would not have been possible for us to get out of lockdown tomorrow or Friday” as earlier planned.
New restrictions in place for the next four weeks include limiting shopping to a 10-kilometre radius from a person’s place of residence if the item is available locally. Non-essential workers in the local government areas of Parramatta, Campbelltown and Georges River will not be allowed to leave their areas for work from midnight on Wednesday, bringing the number of western and southern Sydney councils under that restriction to eight. The source of infection of 103 of the cases is under investigation. At least 68 cases were in the community while infectious, including 46 who were infectious in the community for all of their infectious period.
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The Greater Sydney lockdown will be extended by at least four weeks, with a raft of new rules set to come into place.
Authorities have confirmed the current stay-at-home orders for Greater Sydney - including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour - will remain in place until 28 August.
It comes as New South Wales announced 177 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and one further death.
“It was fairly obvious, given the way the numbers were going in the last few days, it would have not been possible for us to get out of lockdown tomorrow or Friday,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Wednesday.
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