Parts of Australia under new Covid lockdown after cases of Delta variant

Coronavirus outbreaks renew questions about stuttering vaccine rollout and limited quarantine facilities

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Australia is grappling with several outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus, with a wave of restrictions rolling across the country and plunging some cities into lockdown for the first time since the pandemic began.

Residents of every state and territory in the country - except the island state of Tasmania - are again living under restrictions ranging from full-blown lockdowns in Sydney, Darwin and Perth, to mask mandates in some indoor settings in Adelaide and Canberra.