Locked down with Covid cases rising, Sydney wonders how Delta outbreak will end

With restrictions extended for four weeks, cases growing and a sluggish vaccine rollout, the end of the outbreak seems far away

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After five weeks of a tightening lockdown, they were not the words Sydney residents wanted to hear: the leader of New South Wales announcing another month of restrictions and telling the state to prepare for things to get worse, not better.

There was further anguish prompted by the daily Covid case numbers, which were rising daily, despite strict stay at home measures.