Sydney lockdown shock as Gladys Berejiklian admits NSW has failed to ‘quash’ Covid outbreak
by Nino Bucci from Science | The Guardian on (#5M9YN)
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Lockdown restrictions in Greater Sydney will be drastically tightened after the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, conceded measures introduced three weeks ago were failing to stop an outbreak of more than 1,000 cases.
Berejiklian made the changes after repeatedly denying in the past week that there was any need to harden restrictions, saying people could use their common sense" to decide whether they were an essential workplace that had to stay open.
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