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A night curfew, taped-off playgrounds and worker permits will return to Melbourne as Victoria seeks to avoid NSW’s plight of hundreds of new cases a day.
University of NSW School of Population Health researcher Nic Rebuli claimed he would not even consider lifting restrictions until there were less than 100 cases.
It's thought NSW is around 100 days away from being 80 per cent vaccinated. But experts warn it’s not going to signify the start of the “new normal”, as authorities keep suggesting.
Health experts are preparing for a "nightmare scenario" in Australia, with early data from both overseas examples and the local outbreak showing the Delta strain is more severe as well as being harder to contain. Health workers taking swab samples from residents at a Covid-19 drive-through testing clinic in Sydney on 28 July, 2021. Photo: AFP or/ Saeed Khan The warning comes as early data from the NSW outbreak shows more people are in hospital intensive care wards than during the peak of Victoria's second-wave outbreak, which had substantially more active cases. The raw data from NSW is back...
Professor Shaun Hendy says he doesn't think travel with Australia needs to stop completely, as long as there are tight internal restrictions between its states. However, he says New South Wales will not get on top of the virus under its current lockdown regime. Jenny Evans/Getty Images New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks during a Covid-19 update press conference on July 22 in Sydney, Australia. Lockdown restrictions have been further tightened as the state continues to record new community cases and work to stop the spread of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus strain in t...