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Australia cranks up COVID curbs with Brisbane lockdown extended, army patrols in Sydney

Australia’s Queensland state on Monday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to enforce stay-at-home rules as Australia struggles to stop the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreading. Queensland said it had detected 13 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours – the biggest one-day rise […]

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Army to begin patrolling Sydney COVID hotspots to help police enforce lockdown rules

Hundreds of soldiers will arrive in Sydney today to help police crackdown on residents flouting stay-at-home restrictions amid rising case numbers. As many as 300 military personnel will undergo training over the weekend before hitting the streets with police on Monday to help ensure residents are complying with the health orders. NSW Police Minister David

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Australians may face longer lockdown after “reckless” mass protests

Australia’s New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase of the year in locally acquired COVID-19 cases on Sunday amid fears of a wave of new infections after thousands of people joined an anti-lockdown protest. “In relation to yesterday’s protests, can I say how absolutely disgusted I was. It broke my heart,” Gladys Berejiklian, the

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