Sydney anti-lockdown protest blocked as organisers vow to regroup in August
by Elias Visontay from World news | The Guardian on (#5MT4C)
Anti-lockdown protests planned in Sydney fail to materialise as police enforce exclusion zone
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Anti-lockdown protests planned in Sydney on Saturday have failed to materialise, with police confident a crackdown on movement and checkpoints entering the city prevented a repeat of the lockdown-violating mass gatherings seen last weekend.
As New South Wales health authorities announced 210 new cases in the Delta outbreak on Saturday morning, the deputy police commissioner Michael Willing set the scene for an operation involving mounted police, helicopters, harsh fines and an exclusion zone to keep potential protesters from gathering.
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