Sydney: Australia’s largest city announced more stringent covid restrictions including a heavier fine and a more stringent police on Saturday because the authorities struggled to load the Delta outbreak and said they saw “the day most concerning” pandemic “so far.
After months of pursuing a strategy “Covid Zero”, Australia has struggled to bring the resurrection of the controlled Coronavirus case, with more than 10 million people under the ranks in the two largest cities and the capital of Canberra.
Sydney residents, going to the eighth week under the order of staying at home, will now face a large fine to break the rules or lie to contact the tracker, with the current limitation proving the spread.
The police will increase patrols and checkpoints while hundreds of more defense force personnel will help enforce orders to stay at home as an outbreak in the most populous state of New South Wales reaching a record of 466 cases of community.
“Today is the best pandemic day that we see,” said Premier State Gladys Kniklian to reporters in Sydney.
Explain the efforts to curb the outbreak as a war against “evil” Delta strains, Kemulian said Australia faced a significant threat from the outbreak.
“For some time, we think Australia is different from other parts of the world, but we don’t.” Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said he had been looking for additional strength after officers reported people using a gap to avoid restrictions.
Residents are still allowed to leave their homes to exercise, shop, health care and important work – but the police will increase efforts to enforce limitations, he said.
The rules for leaving Sydney are also tightened to prevent outbreaks to spread further to other regions.
The capital city, which was surrounded by New South Wales, was sent to the lock earlier this week while the second largest Melbourne city struggled against its own epidemics.
The resurrection has increased criticism of the launch of the country’s slow vaccine, with only a quarter of Australians who meet the requirements so far being fully vaccinated.