Top doc: ‘Australia’s slow Covid vaccine rollout has come back to bite us’ Millions of Aussies are facing lockdowns and Covid restrictions this week. Source: Getty Australia’s leaders and top doctors spent much of the weekend urging the public to stop messing around and get vaccinated, following news of a number of Covid-19 clusters popping up in states and territories across the country. Currently, residents of Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong, and Shellharbour are in a two-week lockdown, while from 1am tomorrow, masks will be mandatory for two weeks in Queensland’s south-east region following news of five local cases. New South Wales currently has more than 100 local cases of Covid-19. Meanwhile, Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield in the Northern Territory entered a 48-hour lockdown on Sunday after there were four new cases linked to the NT mine cluster. All this follows Melbourne’s Covid-19 scare earlier in the month, which plunged the state into a two-week lockdown.