Searched for
SYDNEY LOCKDOWN
Sydney reopens as Australia looks to live with Covid-19Some pubs in Sydney, Australia's largest city, opened at 12:01 a.m. (1301 GMT) and friends and families huddled together for a midnight bee...
'Blood, sweat, no beers': Sydney set to ease key COVID-19 curbsNearly 62% of all Australians 16 and older have received two doses of vaccine. Once 80% of eligible Australians are fully vaccinated, the c...
Australia's capital extends lockdown for a second month until October 15Canberra is surrounded by New South Wales state, where Australia's delta outbreak began when a limousine driver tested positive June 16. He...
Melbourne extends sixth virus lockdownAlmost seven million people in Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state were scheduled to exit a four-week lockdown on Thursday, but state ...
Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging pathsThe discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in New Zealand was enough for the government to put the entire country into strict lockdown t...
250 held in Australia anti-lockdown protestsAuthorities in Australia say more than 250 people have been arrested while protesting coronavirus lockdowns in the country. Many faced fine...
Sydney imposes nightly curfew as Australia battles Delta outbreakAustralia's third wave of COVID-19 infections, centred on Sydney, has forced more than half the population of nearly 26 million into lockdo...
Sydney records deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne lockdown extendedSydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia's third COVID-19 wave that threatens to push the country's A...
Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, enters 6th lockdownMelbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia's most populous and third-most populous cities respectively, in locking down due to the spre...
Australia shares end lower as Sydney extends lockdownThe worsening outbreak could lead to Australia's central bank delaying the tapering of its asset purchases from September to November, Lond...
Lockdown in Sydney extended by 4 weeks as COVID cases surgeNSW recorded 177 new locally acquired cases in the 24 hours to 8:00 p.m. local time Tuesday, with only 47 of these confirmed to be isolated...
Melbourne to lockdown for 5 days from ThursdayA three-week lockdown of Sydney and surrounding communities in New South Wales state had been due to end on Friday. But it will now last un...
Sydney to face prolonged COVID-19 lockdown amid record 2021 casesHundreds of extra police patrolled parts of Sydney to enforce the city's lockdown orders imposed to stamp out an outbreak of the highly inf...
Sydney and Darwin in lockdown as COVID-19 cases pop up across AustraliaSydney began a two-week lockdown on Sunday as the Bondi neighbourhood cluster of the highly infectious coronavirus Delta variant rose to 11...
Sydney extends Covid-19 lockdown to entire city: State govt"From 6pm today all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into lockdown," said Gladys Berejiklian...
Half-a-million Sydney residents lock down as Delta spreadsThe areas of Sydney to be locked down midnight are Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and City of Sydney, all in the centre of the metropolis.
Sydney faces 'scariest period' in pandemic amid Delta outbreakNSW officials have so far resisted calls for a hard lockdown although Australia has a good record of successfully suppressing past outbreak...
Sydney isolated as COVID-19 clusters build; NZ tightens curbs in capitalOn Wednesday, the state tightened curbs for a week on gatherings and movement in Sydney, but stopped short of a full lockdown, as fears gre...
- Second Melbourne Test preferred if Covid scuppers Sydney Test
A Covid-19 cluster emerged in Sydney last week and has grown to more than 100 cases, with parts of the city in a snap lockdown and restrict...
Australia: Sydney schools evacuated after bomb threatsPolice are warning that making such threats is a serious criminal offence and every effort will be made to identify the person or persons r...