Australia Lockdown

• Australia to lift 18-month travel ban on foreign travel in November

  Australia introduced some of the toughest travel restrictions of any democracy in the world on people entering and leaving the island nation on March 20 last year.

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  Oct 1, 2021
  
• Sydney posts record COVID-19 cases as Delta variant outbreak continues

  Sydney reported a record 279 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, up from the previous high of 259 the day before.

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  Aug 5, 2021
  
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• Australia sees spike in COVID-19 cases despite lockdown

  New South Wales state, home to the country's most populous city Sydney, logged 110 new cases, up from 78 the day before.

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  Jul 20, 2021
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• 3rd Australian state announces lockdown as Delta variant fuels COVID-19 spread

  The state of South Australia said it would join Sydney and Victoria in lockdown from Tuesday evening for seven days after detecting new cases of the Delta strain.

  World

  Jul 20, 2021
• Fact or Fiction: Are ‘circuit breaker’ lockdowns going to cut it? Or is it time for #COVIDZero?

  Some say the risk of a third wave is looming fast, unless we act now.

  Health

  Feb 4, 2021
• After 111 days, Australia’s second-largest city relaxes coronavirus lockdown

  The lockdown changes will allow 6,200 retail stores, 5,800 cafés and restaurants, 1,000 beauty salons and 800 pubs to reopen, impacting 180,000 jobs.

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  Oct 28, 2020
• Australia’s ‘extreme’ 2nd lockdown curbed coronavirus — here’s what it took

  Melbourne has been under one of the toughest lockdowns in the world, including a nightly curfew, after a second outbreak in that state saw daily infection soar.

  Canada

  Sep 22, 2020
• Empty streets in Australia’s Melbourne as pandemic restrictions reimposed

  The closing down of Australia's second-largest city also coincided with frenetic preparation.

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  Aug 5, 2020