Melbourne: Australian police clashed with hundreds of anti-locking protesters in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday when officials reported the highest one-day increase in the country in the case of Covid-19.
The police installed using pepper sprays in Melbourne to break the crowd soared toward the police line, while smaller protesters were prevented to gather in Sydney by the party of a large riot.
No information available on arrest.
Police in Victoria have vowed to distribute a fine of $ 5,000 ($ 3,600) to each protester they can identify the part.
Sydney, a city of more than 5 million people, has been in strict locking for more than two months now, failing so far to contain an outbreak that has spread on the internal border and as far as new countries.
Most of the 894 cases reported throughout Australia on Saturday were found in Sydney, the center of the Delta variant of the Bakar.
“We are in a very serious situation here in New South Wales,” said Minister of Health Brad Hazzard said.
“There is no time now to be selfish, it’s time to think of a wider community and your family.” Police patrolled the streets of Sydney and block private and public transportation to the city center to reduce the number of people gathered in unauthorized protests.
In Melbourne, a large crowd managed to march through the city, with several protesters collided with the police, after the Premier State Daniel Andrews expanded the kuncian throughout the state.
Commissioner of Police Chief Victoria Shane Patton previously warned people to stay away from protests, add it “just ridiculous to think that people would be so selfish and do this.” Some hundred people also protested peacefully in Brisbane, which were not locked.
Although often hard, anti-locking protests are not widely supported by Australians.
A final poll in July by the market research company said research showed that only 7% of people supported demonstrations.
Compliance with public health rules is one key quoted the reason behind the success of Australia in managing a pandemic.
But the state has struggled to control the third wave of infection that began in Sydney in mid-June.
Only about a third of Australia, the age of 16 and above has been fully vaccinated, according to the Federal Health Ministry data released on Saturday.
New South Wales officials reported three deaths and 516 people at the hospital on Saturday.
Of the 85 people in intensive care, 76 were not vaccinated, officials said.
At least 96 active people in the community during their infectious period, and there are a number of violations of public health orders, all of which slow down efforts to reduce the outbreak.
In Victoria, at least 39 active people in the community are transmitted.
Eighteen people were in hospitals, eight in intensive care and six in the ventilator.
The Australian Covid-19 figure is still relatively low compared to other developed countries, with more than 43,000 cases and 978 deaths.