FILE PHOTO: A lone passenger sits at a tram stop on a mostly-empty city centre street on the first day of a lockdown as the state of Victoria looks to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, July 16, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra SandersMELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state, home to more […]

SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) -Two million residents of Sydney will be under nightly curfew from next week to slow the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus that is spreading across New South Wales state, authorities said on Friday as they extended lockdown orders.People walk past a public health message regarding the wearing of masks on public transport, […]

SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) -The COVID-19 lockdown of Sydney was extended on Friday and a nightly curfew imposed on the city’s worst-affected suburbs in a last-ditch attempt to slow the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant that is spreading across New South Wales state.Police officers patrol the quiet city centre during a lockdown to curb the […]