COVID: Small businesses in Sydney hit hard by new lockdown
With the hope for a faster containment of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, Australia's most populous city of Sydney entered a new stricter lockdown, delivering another devastating blow to local small businesses. Sam Sullivan, who runs a gym in Sydney's inner west, told Xinhua news agency on Saturday that the gym lost at least 30 per cent of its members since the start of the lockdown about two weeks ago. "When we first went into lockdown, we tried using the local park, but it seemed almost redundant. We are exposing ourselves to even more people by going to the park, so we retreated from ...