Sydney, Australia, begins two-week COVID lockdown - CBS News

[Rhiannon12866]

Sydney, Australia, on Saturday night began a two-week lockdown amid a surge in cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant. BBC News' Phil Mercer reports.

[SheltieLover]

1. I believe parts of NSW also on lock down

[Rhiannon12866]

2. And yet here in New York, where masks have been required everywhere, we are "opening up" now

[BigmanPigman]

3. Fully vaccinated is only 5%, wow.

No wonder they are on lock down. At least it is cold down there now and people won't be bitching about not being able to go outside like in the GQP areas of the US. I am so sick of people bitching because they can't go to the beach, get drunk at bars and exercise at a gym as opposed to home. GQP supporters are the biggest whiners on the planet.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. And here I thought that Australia was doing well since everywhere started before we did

But I agree that only 5% is really scary. My county is still at only 62% and we just heard about 5 more local cases that week - just in time for New York's "opening up" - and other counties to the north and west have even lower vaccination rates. I can't believe after requiring masks and distancing for over a year, we're suddenly letting our guard down when we're currently threatened with another breakout.

[speak easy]

5. Locked down on 15 new cases a day in a city of 4 million.

- Now 30 cases a day.