Variant Delta | The spread of cases in Sydney is a “national emergency,” officials said

The state of New South Wales, the capital of Sydney, which has been found to have failed in a month’s detention to stop the progress of the highly contagious Delta variant, has urged the federal capital to send vaccines and resources urgently.

The involvement of federal officials in the crisis has been exacerbated by the declaration of a national emergency.

“We have a responsibility before the country to have the virus,” said Gladys Berezkillion, New South Wales Premier. “It is clear that the numbers are not pointing in the right direction.”

State health officials have told us that “the situation in New South Wales, mainly in the southwestern and western suburbs of Sydney, is being treated as an emergency. National.”

New South Wales announced Friday that 136 new cases have been identified in the 24 hours since the outbreak began in June, during which time 1,782 people have been infected in the state.

Australia has had good early results in tackling the epidemic, mainly due to the closure of the massive island-continent border.

But the current number of contaminants complicates the activity of detecting contaminants. This number may seem very low compared to the number of coronavirus cases in other large countries. But it was a challenge for Australia, which chose the “zero cases” strategy from the start.

Because the vaccine campaign has been so slow – 12% of the population is being vaccinated – at a time when many developed countries are beginning to look at the world.

The virus has “spread everywhere” and half of the 25 million Australians are currently in lockdown, Mr.^{To me} The Berkeley government has ruled that its vaccination policy should be “restarted”.