Delta outbreak spiralling out of control in Sydney The New South Wales (NSW) state Liberal-National government yesterday flooded Sydney’s southwest with almost 200 additional police officers, as it seeks to scapegoat workers and the poor for an escalating crisis caused by its own criminally negligent, pro-business response to the city’s COVID outbreak. Long lines of cars at inner-west Sydney COVID-19 testing station [Photo: WSWS Media] NSW authorities this morning reported 50 new infections, surpassing yesterday’s record of 44. Up to 27 of the cases announced yesterday were not in isolation for all or part of their infectious period, along with 37 of those revealed this morning. Those numbers are higher than at any time since the outbreak was first detected on June 16.